Peanut Butter Lumps of Coal Recipe (2024)

This no-bake, easy-to-make peanut butter lumps of coal cookie recipe is a fun update to a traditional lump of coal cookies. These peanut butter cookies are soft, moist, delicious, and only 4-Ingredients!

It is that time of the year, time to make the cookies! No matter how many different kinds of holiday cookies you prepare, a no-bake, easy Christmas cookie is always a welcome addition to the old holiday cookie platter. Oh, don’t get me wrong, nothing gets me into the holiday spirit quite like making baked cookies, but sometimes, easy recipes are what the time-crunch calls for!

Peanut Butter Lumps of Coal Recipe

This holiday season, make these easy Christmas cookies for your friends and family. There are no cookie cutters or bake time involved! Just perfect holiday cookies for your cookie platters, holiday parties, Christmas cookie exchange, or Santa’s milk plate!

These easy Christmas cookies are a great idea when you would like something different than traditional Christmas cookies, yet they are delicious cookies to spread some holiday cheer. No matter what your favorite cookies are: sugar cookies, shortbread cookies, chocolate chip cookies, or gingerbread cookies, these delicious cookies are some of the best Christmas cookies you can make!

These cookies are a creative idea without being fussy or time-consuming. You could make them as a fun activity with your children or grandchildren, that is how simple they are to prepare. This is a wonderful way to spend time with the kiddos; making drop cookies.

A simple cookie, this will quickly become a favorite recipe and one of your best holiday cookies to share!

I expected nothing from this recipe when my niece told me we were making these lumps of coal. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised! Not only were these simple to make, but they also ended up nice and soft and really tasty!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Tips and variations for making these Peanut Butter Lumps of Coal:

● These are lumps of coal, so the less uniform, the better. In other words, do not roll these into a uniform ball.
● If you are not sure how fast the candy melts in your local grocery store turnover, buy some Wilton chocolates. They are a great consistency and generally easier to work with.
● Set the dough in the fridge or freezer for 5 minutes to set. However, you will need to work very quickly with your chocolate on a chilled dough.
● In the United States, cream cheese is sold in 8-ounce bricks.
● If your chocolate melts are not smoothing out as you would like, add a touch of vegetable oil and heat again (this would be the third round).
● You will be tempted to put these in the fridge to dry. Don’t do it. You could get a funky white color on the chocolate candy.
● Black melts were used for better coverage. I have not tried it, but dark chocolate chips might be a substitution, although they will not be black coal, more like dark brown coal.
● You can set your parchment paper on a baking sheet or wire rack to make moving these cookies easier. You might want to use wax paper (I have!)
● If you cannot find peanut butter sandwich cookies, regular sandwich cookies will work, but these will be less peanut buttery.

If you would like more easy Christmas cookie recipes, try these:

● Easy Cornflakes Christmas Clusters Recipe
● Reindeer Graham Cookie Recipe
● Rum Balls Recipe

If you would like a classic Christmas cookie recipe, try these:

● Candy Canes Cookies Recipe
● Spritz Cookie Recipe
● Thumbprint Cookies Recipe

Peanut Butter Lumps of Coal Ingredients:

● 15 oz Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies (we used Oreos!)
● ¼ cup Peanut Butter
● 8 oz Cream Cheese
● 20 oz Black Chocolate Melts

Peanut Butter Lumps of Coal Mise en Place:

● Measuring Cup
● Bowl
● Fork
● Parchment paper
● Food Processor

Peanut Butter Lumps of Coal Direcions:

1. Pulse peanut butter chocolate sandwich cookies in a food processor until crumbs.

2. Add peanut butter and cream cheese to the chocolate peanut butter cookies; pulse until combined (the cookie dough should look like a pie crust dough).
3. Place a piece of parchment paper paper down near your work area.

4. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto parchment paper. These are not to be uniform (they are lumps of coal), so do NOT roll into a uniform ball.
5. Place a cup of black chocolate melts into a bowl. Heat in the microwave for 30 seconds, stir. Heat in microwave for another 30 seconds; stir. Repeat a third time. Check the consistency of your chocolate. If smooth, do not heat further. If it still does not stir and drips smoothly heat one more time.
6. Drop the chocolate lump into the melted black chocolate. Use a fork to remove the cookies from the chocolate.
7. Bounce the fork against the bowl to remove excess black chocolate.

8. Place on a clean sheet of parchment paper.

9. Allow them to dry completely at room temperature.

10. Store in a cool place.

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