No-Bake Choco-Date Cookies for Valentine’s Day
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My 5 year old loves to help out in the kitchen, so to encourage his love for all things culinary, I’ve been looking for easy recipes for him to handle with a little or no assistance where possible.
Looking through my Mama’s recipe book, I found a magazine clipping for a No-Bake Cookie recipe that I thought would be fun for us to try. We added our spin on it to make it Little Man approved and we think these Choco-Date Cookies will be the perfect sweet treat for his teachers on Valentine’s Day!
No-Bake Choco-Date Cookies for Valentine’s Day
These are best refrigerated and yes, they make great treats in that lunch box too!
- Crushed Rice Cereal/Regular Cornflakes We used Rice Chex- 2 1/2 cups (Crush this in a mixer/blender/spice grinder)
- Granulated fine white cane sugar- 1/4 cup
- Ground cashews- 1/2 cup
- Jelly- 3 tbsp We used Peach Apricot
- Cocoa powder- 3 tbsp
- Butter- 2 tbsp
- Seedless dates/baking dates- 1/2 cup
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Take a large bowl and mix the crushed cereal, ground cashews, cocoa powder, dates, sugar and jelly together.
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Melt the butter and add this to the mix and form a dough ball.
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Take a greased pan or line a pan with parchment paper and flatten the "cookie dough" onto the same, till it's about 1/4th inch thick.
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Take your cookie cutter and make the shape of choice.
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Then refrigerate your shaped no-bake cookies for about 2 hours. Or you can eat them as is.
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Enjoy!
If you pick up this heart shaped cookie cutter set you can make different sized cookies.
I love that the choice of jelly or cereal will not make or break this recipe. And this isn’t overly sweet.
And while at the dollar store this past weekend, I found these beautiful Valentine’s themed long glasses (The label says they’re vases but I think otherwise!) that would make the perfect carriers for these cookies to the kids’ teachers on Valentine’s week.
Beautifully packaged in a Valentine’s themed treat bag and with hearts on the ribbon, not only will the teacher receive a homemade treat by your child but a pretty glass memento to keep once those treats are gobbled up. And yes, this is such an inexpensive yet classy Valentine’s gift idea, wouldn’t you think?
For more Valentine’s Day ideas, visit a few of my favorite bloggers:
- How to Make Rose Water by Confessions of an Overworked Mom
- A Valentine’s Day Breakfast by The Guavalicious Life
- Salted Caramels by How Was Your Day?
- Valentine’s Day Krispies Treats by This Mama Loves
- Homemade Strawberry Syrup for Flavorful Delights by Day by Day in Our World
- Pom Pom Valentine’s Day Craft for Kids by Our Family World
- French Vanilla Raspberry Italian Cream Soda by Pretty Opinionated
- Epsom Salts DIY Valentine’s Candles by A Day in Motherhood
- Chocolate Honey Lip Scrub by The Socialite’s Closet
- Hugs and Kisses Valentine’s Cupcakes by Simply Southern Mom
- Printable Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt by Mom on the Side
- Box of Chocolates Cake by Kids Fun Reviewed
- Cranberry Hootycreek – Valentine’s Day Cookies by MommaDJane
- Dark Chocolate Granola by Food Fun Family
- Valentine’s Day “Love Lives Here” Decorative House Craft by Sincerely Mindy
- Hand Sewn Valentine Cards by Beyond Mommying
- DIY Heart Stamp for Kids by Family Focus Blog
- DIY Peppermint Chocolate Bark Favors by A Bride on a Budget
- Day Out With Daddy Jar by Sweet Lil You
- No Sew Fringed Scarf for Him – or Her! by Style on Main
- Strawberry Shortcake in a Jar by 2Boys+1Girl=OneCrazyMom
- Valentine’s Day Oreo Hearts by Gator Mommy Reviews
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