Grandma’s No Bake Cookies

This is a step by step guide to “baking” No Bake Cookies from my grandma’s recipe. I have decided to share this recipe as I have tasted many different variations of no bake cookies in my lifetime, but none compare to the rich fudge used to bake this cookie.

As you can see, this fudge recipe has been used time and time again. For cookie making purposes, a few steps and ingredients had to be added, but for clarities sake I will transcribe it for you:

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of cocoa
• 2 cups of sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1/2 stick of butter
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
• 2 1/2 cups of Quakers quick 1-minute oats

Supplies

• Medium size mixing bowl
• Pot
• Teaspoon measuring spoon
• Tablespoon measuring spoon
• 1 Cup measuring cup
• 1/2 Cup measuring cup
• Stove or stove top
• Wax Paper/Plastic Wrap
• Spoon (to stir)

Your first step is to combine all your dry ingredients EXCEPT OATS (sugar, salt, cocoa) into a medium sized mixing bowl. Stir until well blended with no chunks.

Your next step is to put the 1/2 stick of butter in a pot on the stove at low heat. You should heat butter about 1to 3 minutes- (long enough to soften) so that it combines well with you’re other ingredients.

When you’re butter is soft, add you’re dry ingredients from the mixing bowl to the pot. Add the 1/2 cup of milk and stir until you get a smooth consistency. If butter is not completed melted at this point do not fret, it will melt in eventually.

Once you’ve stirred you’re ingredients in the pot, turn up you’re stove burner to a medium heat. Be sure to stir every couple minutes to ensure that your mixture is not sticking/scorching. Leave you’re mixture over medium heat until it reaches a rolling boil. You don’t want just one or two bubbles, but the whole surface of you’re mixture should be boiling, even while you stir it. When a rolling boil is reached, set a timer for 1 minute and 30 seconds. When this timer is up, remove mixture from heat completely.

Once you’ve removed you’re mixture from heat, add in your teaspoon of vanilla and stir in your tablespoon of peanut butter. Once peanut butter is stirred in, you may mix in your oats.

Once you’ve added the oats, place wax paper down on a flat surface for cookies to cool on. To get you’re mixture into cookie form, scoop 2 to 3 tablespoons (depending on how big you want your cookies to be) and plop it down on the wax paper in round shape. Repeat this process until you run out of cookie mix.

Leave cookies to harden for 10 minutes, then enjoy!