Dad's No-Bakes

The kids often ask for these on Sundays. They're smart enough to skip Mom and go straight to Dad. He's the No-Bake-Cookie-Guy. This is a classic, but our recipe comes from a book my Dad gave me when I went to college, On Campus Cookbook For The Non-Kitchen Cook by Mollie Fitzgerald.

Chocolate/Peanut Butter No-Bakes

2 T. butter

1 1/2 T. unsweetened cocoa

1/4 C. milk

1 C. sugar

1/2 C. crunchy peanut butter

1 1/2 C. uncooked oatmeal

1 tsp. vanilla

pinch of salt

Line counter with wax paper.

Place the butter, cocoa, milk, and sugar in saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil and remove from heat.

Add the peanut butter, oatmeal, vanilla and salt to the chocolate mixture. Stir until everything is well combined.

Drop the mixture by spoonful onto the wax paper. As the mixture cools, it becomes hard, so you will have to work quickly.

Allow the cookies to set for 30 minutes before transfering them to a plate or to an airtight container for storage.

Makes 36 small cookies.

(16 cookies per batch makes a 3 WW point cookie. The whole recipe is 51 1/2 points, divided by however many cookies your batch makes equals points per cookie.)