During our visit with our birth mother this past Friday, she asked if I had ever tried to make no-bake cookies (I've written previously about making cookies for our visits with our birth mother, and its sort of become "my" thing, so to speak). I said I hadn't but I'd be more than willing to try and share some during our next visit. I remembered that during family get togethers on my mom side, there used to be some awesome no-bake cookies. I called my Mom, and she confirmed that those cookies were my Grandma's recipe, and that she had it and would pass it along to me to make.
So today, I took my first crack at them, and they turned out scrumptious (always wanted to use that word in a blog post). So hopefully, I will be able to share my grandmother's no-bake cookies with our birth mother the next time we see each other, and have another neat story in our adoption journey to (hopefully) share with our daughter.
So, the recipe...
Ingredients:
3 cups quick cooking oatmeal
1/2 cup (or more) crunchy peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup milk
dash of salt
Directions:
1. Prepare wax paper to lay cookies on
2. Mix oatmeal, crunchy peanut butter, and vanilla. Set aside.
3. Boil the remaining ingredients rapidly for one minute so that its a smooth mixture
4. Poor the boiled mixture onto the oatmeal mixture, and stir together rapidly.
5. Place spoonfuls on the waxed paper, and allow them to harden.
My grandma's advice provided that the "secret for success" is the speed in the mixing, which has to happen quickly in order to make sure the cookies don't end up too dry.
And the results...
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