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…and we’re having a guest for dinner, and my husband doesn’t like packaged desserts, and the super has yet to show up to do repairs! What do I do?!?!

Fruit? Popcorn?

Lightbulb! No bake cookies!

I searched Recipezaar.com and saved a number of appealing options to my cookbook. In the end, I prepared the following recipe:

No Bake Cookies

By: Lola =^..^=
May 6, 2004

These are wonderfully easy and delicious. My mom has made these for many years. And now I am making them for my family.

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter or smooth peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups quick-cooking oats

Directions

1. Mix sugar, milk and cocoa, together, on medium heat.

2. Stir often, (I use a whisk).

3. Once the mixture starts boiling keep stirring and let boil for 2 to 3 min.

4. Then remove from heat add butter, and peanut butter, mix well add vanilla and oats stir and drop by spoonfulls on waxed paper.

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Notes:

1.  I used soymilk instead of regular milk. As an Orthodox Jew who keeps kosher, I would not have been able to serve cookies containing regular milk after serving meat for dinner.

2.  I used a whisk, and it worked wonderfully!

3.  I let it boil for the full 3 minutes, as I had seen in reviews of other similar no bake cookies that such cookies do not solidify properly if the boiled mixture is not cooked long enough.

4.  I did not have waxed paper, so I decided to try putting the cookies on my baking pan. I could not find it, though, as my oven has been broken for some time! I did find my pizza pan, though. (Don’t ask me how I found that — I also needed the oven to make pizza with the pizza pan! I did manage to make pizza a different way, though, but that’s another story.) That was a good thing because I don’t think there would have been enough space on my regular pan.

Results: Success! My husband, guest, and I LOVED them! We all ate a bunch even though we’d just had a huge dinner of spaghetti and meatballs with stir-fried broccoli and asparagus. The only issue I had was that they turned out very crumbly and were therefore kind of messy, but who cares? The taste is the most important aspect, in my opinion!

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