I distinctly remember standing on a chair in my grandma's kitchen to help my brother and two cousins make this recipe. We made them all the time. Easily once a week during the summers that we spent with my Grandma. We never called them No-Bake Cookies though. For some reason we always called it Dog Food. I never thought this was a turn off as I knew what they tasted like and would scramble past you to get a spoon before they cooled even if you called it something much worse.
I made a batch of these the other day and sent them with Jake to share at work. I expected the big issue to be the peanut butter and chocolate combo, which most Kiwi's I've met detest. Jake recalled his pimping of my cookies to go something like this;
"My wife made some No-Bake Cookies."
"You mean, raw cookies?"
Jake says he struggled to think of what else to call them and then said, "Dog Food?"
I can see where my marketing plan may have a few holes but sheesh, we're talking cookies that you don't have to bake folks! :)
The recipe calls for you to drop them on waxed paper which is great. We used to just pour the entire batch on a buttered plate and slice it off into squares. Actually, most often we'd just get spoons and eat it while it was still warm.
Be sure to measure your ingredients out before you begin.
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
4 Tablespoons cocoa powder
3/4 cup peanut butter, crunchy or smooth
3 cups quick cooking oats
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine sugar, milk, cocoa, butter in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Once at a rolling boil, cook for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter, oats and vanilla. Drop by spoonful onto waxed paper and allow to cool.
If you don't boil long enough the cookies will not set, if you boil for too long they'll become crumbly and won't hold together.
I made a batch of these the other day and sent them with Jake to share at work. I expected the big issue to be the peanut butter and chocolate combo, which most Kiwi's I've met detest. Jake recalled his pimping of my cookies to go something like this;
"My wife made some No-Bake Cookies."
"You mean, raw cookies?"
Jake says he struggled to think of what else to call them and then said, "Dog Food?"
I can see where my marketing plan may have a few holes but sheesh, we're talking cookies that you don't have to bake folks! :)
The recipe calls for you to drop them on waxed paper which is great. We used to just pour the entire batch on a buttered plate and slice it off into squares. Actually, most often we'd just get spoons and eat it while it was still warm.
Be sure to measure your ingredients out before you begin.
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
4 Tablespoons cocoa powder
3/4 cup peanut butter, crunchy or smooth
3 cups quick cooking oats
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine sugar, milk, cocoa, butter in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Once at a rolling boil, cook for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter, oats and vanilla. Drop by spoonful onto waxed paper and allow to cool.
If you don't boil long enough the cookies will not set, if you boil for too long they'll become crumbly and won't hold together.
i LOVE no bake cookies. my roommate and i made them all the time in college! i've never heard them called dog food, though. i see more of a resemblance to dog something else!!! but, they're mighty tasty AND addicting!
The first thing Chris said to me this morning was, "Did you see Brandie's cookie recipe?" And then he read it to me. Naturally I decided I should make them for breakfast this morning. Yummmmmmy. Good heavens. They're so good. They're so rich. They're so easy. I was going to bring them to bocce tonight, but I'm not sure they are going to be any left by then. So good! But I can see why the dog food name came up. I think I'm going to call them Brandie's Summer Cookies.
Susan - They do have oatmeal in them so I think they are appropriate for breakfast cookies. :)
Dawn - Addicting is right! The main reason I sent them with Jake was so I wouldn't eat the whole batch.
I think I ate too many for breakfast. It was a weird mix of feeling weak and having a sugar rush until noon. I hope you ration these to your children! :)
Chris, we don't ration them but make sure the kids have a steady stream of coffee to keep them going until lunch time. :)
I too detest the peanut butter chocolate combo but LOVE no bake cookies. They are so healthy too with the positive effects from cocoa, oats and peanut butter. I think I should brand a no bake cookie weight loss plan, where you only eat no bakes and lettuce and lose weight!!