Wednesday, October 8, 2008

What a cookie!


So I decided that I would make these chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies that are easy to make and pretty cheap. Lauren picked up some milk on the way home to complete my ingredients. I could almost taste them!
LG was called away to mutual (do they still call it that?) as part of his new calling and I began to no-bake the cookies.
I added the:
1/3 cup cocoa
2 cups sugar (well, what we had left of it)
3/4 cube butter
1/2 cup of newly purchased milk
I boiled this for exactly 1 and 1/4 minutes, removed it from the heat and added:
1/2 cup peanut butter and
2 tsp vanilla (Mexican of course)
As I reached under the cupboard to get the oatmeal...I realized we were out!
Now, having only a few options at this point
1. climb the back yard fence and walk the 1/4 mile to the grocery store in the dark to purchase more oatmeal.
2.Call LG and ask him to pick some up on his way home...in an hour. OR
3. Use the instant oatmeal in the packets I found when looking for the regular oatmeal.
I choose option 3.
Now, if the original flavor had been enough to complete the:
3 cups needed, I would have been in good shape...no go. I also used Maple/brown sugar and Apple/Cinnamon packets to complete the recipe.
They are cooling now...but I cheated and tasted them...they aren't too bad... but very, very sweet, even after scooping most of the sugar out of the packets.
Would it be bad to give these to my neighbors? :)

2 comments:

Flee said...

Yummy! I love cookies! Most any kind I can think of.

Angie said...

You can send some up to your neighbors in New York!! Miss you guys.