No-bake haystack cookies are a tasty vintage no-bake cookie made with peanut butter, peanuts, butterscotch, and salty chow mein noodles! These retro cookies are beyond easy to make, and they have just the right amount of crunch!
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Instructions
In a medium microwave-safe bowl, melt the butterscotch chips and peanut butter on high for 1 minute. Stir the mixture. Then, continue microwaving at 30-second increments, stirring each time, until it is smooth and creamy.
Remove the bowl from the microwave and fold the roasted peanuts and dry chow mein noodles into the mixture until well coated.
Drop heaping tablespoon portions of the mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (using your hands to form them into mounds if needed).
Set the haystacks aside and allow them to cool and set. *Setting can take up to 2-3 hours, you may place them in the fridge to speed things along.
Notes
Melt the butterscotch and peanut butter slowly, it can burn if left unattended.
Parchment paper, waxed paper, and aluminum foil all work for setting the cookies onto.
You can spray your spoon with non-stick spray before dropping the haystack mixture to prevent it from sticking.
If you don't want to get your hands messy, use two spoons to push them into mounds.