Almond Joy Cookies

"Sometimes you feel like a nut"—and sometimes you just want a cookie! These no-bake treats are a cinch to make and they taste just like a classic Almond Joy candy bar. With just a few simple ingredients, you can have sweet chocolate and coconut treats topped with almonds in no time. They're gluten-free and you don't even have to turn on the oven.

The Almond Joy candy bar was introduced by The Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing Company in 1946, but today it is manufactured by Hershey's. Almond Joy is the sister product of Mounds, which is a similar confection but without the almonds and coated with dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. Both feature similar packaging and logo design, but Mounds has a red wrapper and Almond Joy has a blue wrapper. These two candies are often associated with their famous jingle: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, Sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't."

This recipe calls for sweetened shredded coconut, the most common type found in the baking section of most grocery stores. The moist, sweet texture and flavor of sweetened shredded coconut is frequently used in baking and is perfect in no-bake cookies like this one. For best results, make sure you are buying the correct type of shredded coconut and avoid coconut chips and shavings (long, wide strips of dried coconut) and desiccated coconut (finely ground dried, unsweetened coconut).