5 Ingredient Magic Cookies. – Half Baked Harvest

5 Ingredient Magic Cookies. Made with coconut, roasted cashews, sweet chocolate chips, quick-cooking oats, and a can of sweetened condensed milk. Just mix, scoop, and bake. Simple as that! These cookies take only a few minutes to prep. Then bake these up, and kind of like magic, you’ll have delicious cookies!

I think any of you from the Midwest are likely familiar with 7-layer bars. Everyone’s mom or grandma had their own recipe. Some looked the same, and others had slight variations. Either way, they always turned out so yummy!

My mom used to make them all the time. Only she didn’t use graham crackers, which tend to be traditional. She’d use a layer of oats, but no graham crackers. We loved them. These are the cookie version, using just five ingredients.

I was so happy with how these turned out. I think they’re even more delicious than 7-layer bars. A bit chewier and saltier with lots and lots of chocolate chips!

I baked up yet another (double) batch of these just last night for my family to take with them this weekend to Aspen. Everyone is staying together in the same house, and I’m sure these will get eaten right up!

I’ve been making these on repeat!

Here are the details

Ingredients

• unsweetened fine shredded coconut – I like the Bob’s Red Mill brand
• roasted cashews – make sure these are dry roast with nothing else other than salt. You don’t want any weird oils on the nuts!
• semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips
• quick cooking rolled oats – this is what my mom used growing up, but I imagine regular oats probably work fine too
• sweetened condensed milk – the magic ingredient

Special Tools

You need just a mixing bowl and a cookie sheet for these cookies.

Steps

Step 1: mix the cookie dough

Do this in a mixing bowl. The order the ingredients that go in doesn’t matter. Just make sure the sweet milk evenly coats all the ingredients. It will be sticky.

Step 2: scoop and bake

Take a spoon or use a cookie scoop, and scoop out mounds of the dough. I do nine cookies per baking sheet, but this will vary depending on the size of your cookie sheet.

If any of the mounds look too loose, push them together with your hands. These do not need to be perfect or uniformly shaped, so don’t stress!

Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes. I like around 12 minutes, then I let the cookies set and finish cooking on the cookie sheet. Your cookies will come out looking a little puffed, but once they settle and set, they’ll look perfect.

Step 3: time to enjoy!

I found my cookies to be absolutely delicious while warm, but they’re also yummy once cooled.

You can also add a sprinkle of flaked sea salt if you like. I’m sure that’s so delicious!

Some Tips!

These are honestly so easy, you can’t mess them up! I will say that if your dough feels too wet and sticky, you can add up to 1/2 cup of additional oats. The more oats you add, the drier the cookie, as the oats soak up the condensed milk more than the other ingredients.

And then, lastly, if you want your chocolate chips to look more like mine, add a few directly on top of each cookie just after you pull the cookies out of the oven. The chips will get melty on top! YUM!

Looking for other winter dessert recipes? Here are my favorites: 

Chocolate Dipped Sesame Oatmeal Bars

Homemade Twix Bars

5 Ingredient Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies

Healthier Homemade Nutter Butter Cookies

Healthy…ish Homemade Samoas Cookies

Tahini Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Salted Tahini Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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