The first time I ever had No Bake Cookies, I was about 18 or 19. I went home for a few days with my friend Melissa over summer break, and her mom had made these cookies. I immediately fell in love. Now I had no real interest in cooking or baking at that point in my life, so I never got the recipe from her, and unfortunately she's no longer with us, so I've spent the past few years trying different recipes(although they're all fairly similar) and I finally found a recipe on allrecipes.com that, after a few adaptations, is about as close as I think I can get.
As the name No Bake Cookies suggest, there's no actual baking involved in these, just some stove top time. You can make these in about 30 minutes or less, which is awesome. They're a great pot-luck cookie....very little work for quite a bit of reward.
Ingredients Needed:
1/2 cup(1 stick) butter
1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
4 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup peanut butter(the recipe calls for chunky, I prefer smooth)
3 cups quick cooking oats
To Make:
In a large saucepan, melt the butter, sugar, cocoa, and milk together. Bring to a boil, and cook for a minute and a half. Remove from heat, and add the oats, peanut butter and vanilla. Scoop by teaspoonfuls onto cooling racks covered with parchment paper. The cookies should start to set up after about 15-20 minutes. Aaaaaaaaaand, done.
Makes about 2 dozen large-ish cookies, or 4 dozen small-ish cookies.
See? Easy.
These are one of my favorite cookies ever, and in honor of a great lady who left us too soon, they shall now be known(at least to me) as Melissa's Mom's Cookies.
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