No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

[BikeWriter]

No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
These candy-like cookies are easy to make and delicious. If you want to indulge in something sinfully sweet but don't have the time to make something fancy, this quick and easy recipe is sure to hit the spot. Plus, there's the added bonus that because you're using your choice of ingredients, you'll be avoiding those nasty preservatives found in store-bought snacks.
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 cup sugar (I use cane sugar)
1/4 cup milk* (I sometimes use condensed or whole milk)
dash sea salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla
1 heaping tablespoon peanut butter (optional: add more to taste and increase the oatmeal)
1 1/2 cups UNCOOKED oatmeal

Microwave the butter in a microwave-safe bowl for 15-30 seconds, until the butter is melted. Add 1/4 cup cocoa and blend until the cocoa is dissolved into the butter.

Add the sugar, milk and salt. Blend well.

Microwave on high for 1 minute 10 seconds to bring to a full boil. (Should you need to microwave the batter some more, do so in 10 second increments.) You want a full boil, but because it will continue to cook for awhile once it's removed from the microwave, heating it too long can cause the mixture to scorch.)

Add the vanilla, peanut butter, and oatmeal. Stir well. Drop by tablespoonful on waxed paper and allow to cool.

Makes 12 cookies.

[ernstbass]

1. We call those Preacher cookies

my Grandma said it's because you could have them made by the time the preacher got to your door if you saw him coming. Mine usually don't set up and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestion?

[BikeWriter]

4. I can't imagine why. I'll ask my Sister. She makes them all the time.

[Telly Savalas]

12. You mean they don't harden up as they cool?

I had that problem the first time, so on the second attempt I adjusted a few things:

1. make the heapin' spoonful of PB a little less heapin'
2. make sure the error in the milk measurement leaned towards there being too little, such that there is less liquid in the mix
3. letting the mixture boil for a while longer. on my microwave, at the highest setting it takes like 1:30 or so just to get the boil, so I let it go for about 30 seconds or so after that point.

With these changes, things worked better. I think it's item #3 that made the difference, since you'd think that the boiling releases the moisture of all of the ingrediants which would result in degooifying when it cools, but I'm not a chemist so this is pure speculation.

Thanks to the original poster for the recipe. I used to make something like this on the stove, but with the microwave it's so much easier. I expect to gain about 10 pounds in the next month.
:)

[bearfan454]

2. These are in Demopedia now

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/DU_Recipes:Baking

[BikeWriter]

5. Very good, thank you! :-)

[merci_me]

3. I use to make something similar

but they didn't have any chocolate. I have a recipe around here somewhere, I'll have to check it out.

I came across the recipe when my kids were in grade school, MANY years ago. It was a lifesaver more than once, when one of them would tell me, in the morning, that they were suppose to take cookies to school THAT morning.

Mary

[BikeWriter]

6. Yes'm, they're pretty quick and easy. My Mom used to send them to me...

in Vietnam. :-)

[merci_me]

7. That's when I was sending them

to my kids' elementary school.

If I would have known, I'd have sent some to you, too.

Thanks for your service, BikeWriter!

Mary

[BikeWriter]

8. Thank you, Mary. :-)

[Longhorn]

9. Thanks for that comment!

I have an open box that I'm packing with goodies for my son. He's a Marine stationed in Iwakuni, Japan, and they're going to Korea in a couple of weeks for training exercises. I was just wondering if these cookies would be good to send to him and now I know, thank to you!

And thanks from me, too, for YOUR service!

[NMDemDist2]

10. my hubby said his mom always used real popcorn to pack his

"goodies from home" boxes. he says it kept the cookies from breaking and it gave him something to share with his platoon mates :)

[chillynurse]

11. also try

I love them. batch with cocoa and one without. There great!!!