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A wood tray covered with no bake chow mein noodle Christmas cookies. You can see the caramel cookies, peanuts, noodles inside the cookies mounds which are covered with chocolate and a dusting of white icing sugar.
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No Bake Chow Mein Noodle Christmas Cookies

An easy no bake Christmas cookie made with chow mein noodles, caramels, peanut butter and chocolate.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, Canadian
Keyword Chow Mein Noodle Cookie, No Bake Christmas Cookie
Prep Time 20 minutes
30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 24 cookies
Cost $6

Ingredients

  • 28 caramels unwrapped 250g or 8 oz
  • 3 tbsp of butter
  • 3 tbsp of water
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ cup smooth peanut butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 cups fried chow mein noodles
  • ½ cup salted peanuts chopped
  • Optional 1/4 cup melted chocolate sprinkles or icing sugar

Instructions

Step One - Preparation

  • Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper. Butter the parchment paper well. Butter either a cookie scoop or tablespoon and set aside.
  • Chop the peanuts and set aside.
    A collage of two images one showing chopping peanuts on a cutting board with a knife. The second image is the same but showing cutting chow mein noodles with a knife for no bake nooble cookies for Christmas.
  • Chop the chowmein noodles and set aside.

Step Two- Melt Caramels

  • In the top of a double boiler or a large bowl over boiling water, melt the butter. Unwrap the caramels and add to the butter. Add the water and melt over medium low heat. Stir constantly until the caramel is melted and the mixture is smooth. Mine took 10 minutes to melt.
    Caramels that are melted in a bowl over boiling water. The caramel has a spatula resting in it.

Step Three - Add the Crunchy Salty Goodness

  • Add the peanut butter and vanilla, stir to combine. then add the chow mein noodles and salted chopped peanuts.
  • Note: If your bowl isn't large enough for the peanuts and chow mein noodles. Place the peanuts of noodles into a large buttered bowl and then pour the buttery caramel mixture over top instead.
    Mixing chow mein noodle cookies together and scooping them out with a large buttered cookie scoop.

Step Four - No Bake Chow Mein Noodle Cookies

  • Work quickly to have the cookies panned before they cool and harden. Scoop heaping tablespoons of the cookies onto your cookie sheet. Let cool.
    A cookie tray covered in parchment paper and mounds of cooling chow mein noodle cookies. The last cookie is being scooped onto the cookie tray with a large cookie scoop.

Step Five - Decorate for Christmas Cookies

  • Decorating these no bake cookies is optional, but I like to make them into extra special Christmas cookie by adding chocolate. You can drizzle/coat them with melted chocolate, sprinkle them with Christmas sprinkles, or sift icing sugar over the top.
    A wood tray covered with no bake chow mein noodle Christmas cookies. You can see the caramel cookies, peanuts, noodles inside the cookies mounds which are covered with chocolate and a dusting of white icing sugar.