No-bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Total Time: 6 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 4 tablespoons cocoa
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (or chunky but is seems to make a more crumbly dry cookie)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 -3 1/2 cups dry quick-cooking oats

Recipe

• 1 add the first four ingredients into a 4-quart sauce pan.
• 2 bring to a rolling boil and hold for 1 minute.
• 3 remove from heat.
• 4 add peanut butter into the hot mixture and stir until melted.
• 5 add in vanilla. (almond extract is good also, but i only use 1/2 teaspoon almond and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla).
• 6 mix in the oats and drop by tablespoons onto wax paper.
• 7 let cool until set.
• 8 *please remember that even if you do follow the recipe exactly, it doesn't always turn out just right. i have had these not set up for me and be hard and dry. but most of the time, the recipe is just right. i have also found that it makes a difference if you use quick cooking oats or old fashioned. in my experience it takes more old fashioned oats than quick cooking and i like the texture of the quick cooking better. when you make it a few hundred times like i have you learn a couple of things:) also, chunky peanut butter tends to make them more dry and crumbly.