No-bake. Gluten-free. Ready in about 10 minutes. What’s not to love about this no-bake chocolate oatsies recipe? Not a thing! Keep reading to find out more.

Do you ever think about the foods you ate when you were a child?

The foods you ate then are probably a lot different than the foods you eat now. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Certain dishes fall out of fashion – just like clothes, music, movies, slang, etc.

But that’s no reason not to take a look back and appreciate what used to be.

Which is exactly what I am going to be doing with my new blog series:

Retro Recipes

In the next few weeks, I am going to be cooking up some old-school retro recipes, including:

• Foods I ate as a kid
• Forgotten recipes that were big in the 70s and 80s
• Other old-school recipes as suggested by readers

I am super excited about this series, and I hope you’ll follow along.

It’s going to be radical.

First Up: Chocolate Oatsies

I come from a family of sweet tooths.

When I was young, my older brothers would make these chocolate cookies all the time. This was one of the only food items they would make – other than pizza rolls and frozen pizzas.

This is a testament to how easy this recipe is. If my then-adolescent brothers could make these cookies (in a matter of minutes) – then truly anyone can make them!

About The Recipe

A lot of retro recipes get a bad rap for being bland, boring or just not that good.

But these chocolate oatsies are none of the above.

I loved them when I was a child – and I am happy to report that I love them just as much as an adult. They’re good because:

• They’re not overly sweet. I changed one thing about the original recipe, and that was to reduce the amount of sugar from 2 cups to 1 cup. These are plenty sweet – and 2 cups of sugar is excessive and unnecessary.
• They’re chewy in a great way. There’s something about the texture of these cookies that I love. They’re chewy and moist. Use old-fashioned oats for the best results.
• They’re quick and easy to make. These treats take less than 10 minutes to make, start to finish.

These cookies are also gluten-free. But I’m quite sure that’s an accident and wasn’t the original intent of the recipe. Gluten free wasn’t really a thing in the 80s!

Modern-day update: Bring this recipe into the 21st century by placing a whole coffee bean or chocolate-covered coffee bean on top of each cookie.

Get more retro recipes:

• Chipped beef on toast
• Ribbon sandwiches
• Cream cheese special occasion mints
• Roast beef commercials
• Mulligan stew
• FDR’s birthday cake