Chocolate No Bake Cookies – Mama Guest Blogs!
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Hello, from Christy’s Mama. I thought I would give Christy a chance to enjoy her time left in New York by doing a guest post. I hope that you enjoy my post as much as I enjoyed eating the results! School is finally out again and that means trying to come up with snacks for the children. I know that most of you can use a quick, very easy and relatively cheap cookie recipe. All my kids loved these cookies growing up and it is still counted among their favorites. It was a go to recipe mainly because it was so quick, with little clean up and I usually had all the ingredients on hand. I made these cookies today while looking after four of my grandchildren. That is how easy they are!
Before I show you how to make these cookies, let me give you a little background 
on some of the ways we enjoy these cookies. When we were young, my sister and I made these cookies and ate them with a spoon right out of the pot. We didn’t have a candy thermometer, didn’t know how to use one anyway and didn’t care if they turned out or not. We loved them best hot, before they had time to set up. My son loves them with peanut butter stirred in so that they become a sort of chocolate peanut butter cup.
If you decide to make them, make sure that you taste them after you stir the dry ingredients in just to make sure they are okay for the kids to eat. In fact, you may need to try a couple of spoonfuls. I sure wouldn’t want my grand kids to eat something unfit for their consumption ~grins~. After you spoon them out onto the wax paper, make sure you scrape the remainder out of the pot and take another taste, just to be sure that it is okay for everyone to eat once they cool. After all, we all know that some foods taste different after they cool. Always remember, quality control begins with the cook. 😉
Since I am new to cooking for you, I think I’d better taste another one just to be sure they are still good. After all, they’ve been sitting out most of the day and I want to be sure before I hit the send button. Yep, they’re still okay so here goes! I hope you and your kids enjoy them!
You’ll need: Quick Oats, Cocoa Powder, Vanilla, Sugar, Margarine, and Milk
Place your margarine, milk, and white sugar in a pot.
Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Insert candy thermometer and boil until mixture reaches soft ball stage.
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Mama’s directions for using a candy thermometer:
I never had good luck with candy. My mother had always used a glass of water to test for soft ball stage so it was just a guess. I discovered a candy thermometer while watching Julia Child (that tells you how long ago it was!). To use a candy thermometer, attach it to the side of your saucepan. Push the edge of your spoon underneath it to make sure it is not touching the bottom of the saucepan. Now just cook your mixture until it reaches the correct temperature on the thermometer. Remove the candy thermometer and set it aside on a saucer to cool. Do not put it in your dishwater. It will break! I don’t let it soak in the dishwater either. I have had problems with the water getting into the thermometer. Just use a wet dish cloth (we call it a dishrag) and wipe it until it is clean. Then dry well and store for your next use. You will be an accomplished candy maker!
Remove from heat and stir in the oats, cocoa
and vanilla.
Spoon onto waxed paper and allow to cool.
Here are my taste testers for today: Lane, Austin, and Jake.
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Optional add ins:
1/2 Cup Peanut butter- We like extra crunchy peanut butter so that we have little nuts in the cookies but you can add any type of peanut butter. Just add the peanut butter immediately after it reaches soft ball stage and stir until it melts into the mixture. Then add the oats, vanilla and cocoa and proceed as directed.
1/2 Coconut-Add cup coconut when you add the oats, vanilla and cocoa.
I’m sure there are other add ins that would be delicious. Experiment and let us know what you come up with. Who knows, we may just invent a new cookie! Thanks for visiting with me today, I sure did enjoy it.
Sincerely, Mama
Being a mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my
field, since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont
Hi there, Christy’s mama. You did great. I learned to cook making these cookies. I am a Southern who got transplanted to ME a few years ago and they eat them too. They call these cookies simply, ‘no bakes’. Some of them are just peanut butter with no cocoa. Both kinds are yummy.
Hi it’s so good of you to stand in for Christy you can do that anytime!~! Everyone said what I wanted to say about you and your daughter *pout*………You should be so very proud of what she is doing and I know you are!! I’m amazed everyday I come here and a lot of the time I check in just before bed and laugh out loud so hard my apt neighbors must be getting suspicious by now heehee. I love these cookies but never used a thermometer but I do have one and maybe it will make it a little easier or the one minute rule is a good tip too. The reason I don’t make them is there is never many to share for some reason… I have never added peanut butter. I really should make a batch like that just for a test right?
Keep up the good work. BTW my grandmother came to Canada from KY in 1907 and I’m almost sure that is the reason that a lot of recipes are familiar to me in many ways or remind me of things my mom did in the kitchen. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing these. My Daddy was the only one in our house that could make these cookies and get them to set up. We liked to stir in some creamy peanut butter into the mix.
Great post!! I also grew up eating these. My cousins that used to babysit for me growing up made these all the time. It wasn’t until I was old enough to stay by myself and started making these myself that I knew you were supposed to let these harden. We sat at the table like vultures with spoon in hand waiting for the cookies to cool enough to eat them while they were still warm!
Thank you Mama Janice for this wonderful recipe! I can easily make these gluten free for my husband…he will love them!!
Bountiful Blessings!!
Recently, I started making these again for my “gluten-free” husband and he loves them! I used to make them for my son and his friends, but they are all grown & have families of their own now!
I’ve always made them with peanut butter, but you can add all sorts of things like sunflower seeds, raisins, etc. to make them more nutritious.
We have been making these for years and love them. And can I just say thank you, thank you for changing you RSS feed to full feed! I really prefer being able to read a whole post in my feed reader or email.
Love them too much–too dangerous to make. We call them Cow Patties. Such a gross name, but so delicious!
I started calling them “Cow Chip Cookies”, when my son was small, my house was the Kool-Aide house, and alllllllllllll the neighborhood kids would come over every day after school. They had NEVER had no bake cookies before, not a single kid but mine, so I just told them, “Why, they’re Cow Chips of course! Don’t they look like cow chips???” Once one kid bit into one and indicated it was suitable for human consumption, they became a HUGE hit!
Ever since, these cookies have been Cow Chip Cookies for me and for anyone I serve them to! It brings back sweet memories and makes for new ones!
Thanks, Mama, for the recipe! I was just thinking the other day of doing a web search for it! : D