Can you help me with this cookie recipe?!


Question: 1 stick of margarine or butter
2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
dash salt
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/2 cup of chunky peanut butter
3 cups of quick oats
1 sheet of wax paper

Combine first 6 ingredients in a saucepan and cook 5 minutes. Stir in peanut butter. Remove from heat and add quick oats, mix well. Drop from a teaspoon onto wax paper. Let cool.

...My question is, what kind of cocoa do I use? Powdered, block etc and should it be sweetened or unsweetened? Also when it says "cook" for 5 minutes, do I need to let it boil? Are quick oats like instant oatmeal?

Thanks, I am an inexperienced baker :)


Answers: 1 stick of margarine or butter
2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
dash salt
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/2 cup of chunky peanut butter
3 cups of quick oats
1 sheet of wax paper

Combine first 6 ingredients in a saucepan and cook 5 minutes. Stir in peanut butter. Remove from heat and add quick oats, mix well. Drop from a teaspoon onto wax paper. Let cool.

...My question is, what kind of cocoa do I use? Powdered, block etc and should it be sweetened or unsweetened? Also when it says "cook" for 5 minutes, do I need to let it boil? Are quick oats like instant oatmeal?

Thanks, I am an inexperienced baker :)

use regular cocoa from the tin(I use Hersheys cocoa) we call these no bake cookies. Quick oats are like the Quaker Oats that you buy in the round canister and I always let my batch boil slowly, but make sure you stir this stuff really, really well. Don't let it sit while it's boiling without stirring it because it will stick to the bottom of the pot and burn. Also when cleaning the pot afterwerds use hot water and let it soak for a bit. It will take a little while for these cookies to firm up but either way they are tasty.

powdered, and I would say sweetened ( unless you don't want it overly sweet). Good luck, sounds yummy

You use powdered UN-sweetened cocoa. If you use the sweetened with that much sugar it is going to be really super sweet. The quick oats aren't exactly the instant oatmeal, they come as dry oats. Let it come to a boil but turn the heat down so it isn't overflowing, you don't want it to burn. Good luck, these cookies are really good and easy to make.

I'm assuming that you would use baking cocoa. It's not sweet, it looks like powdered hot chocolate, but doesn't taste like it! And I wouldn't let it boil, because then it might scorch to the pan, make sure everything is melted and combined well in the pan. And yes, quick oats are similar to instant oatmeal, the just cook faster. Are these "No Bake" cookies????

Hope they turn out well!! Good Luck!

No quick oats are not like instant oatmeal. There will be a box of oats in the store that have quick oats on the box. They would be in the usual cylinderical box.

powdered unsweetened cocoa

thats what the sugar is for.

Those are no bake cookies. I have made them many times. Yes use powered CoCo and no its not sweetened. Its with the baking items in the store. Yes cooking time is very important because they will not set up if they are not cooked long enough. It should reach a slow boil. Start timing the cooking time when it reachs the slow boil. Get Quaker quick oatmeal it will have a picture of an old man on the box. These are the best cookies in the world! Good luck!

Hershey's Powdered cocoa. semi-sweet cocoa or unsweetened. Otherwise you have to melt the block cocoa before you use it in the recipe. & be careful not to burn the cocoa if you use the block kind.
"cook" means a light simmer not quite a boil. the cocoa will start to burn & burnt tasting cookies are no good.
Yes, the instant oats(quaker oatmeal works best).

i think you should use unsweetened cocoa the powdered kine.
it has alto of sugar in this recipe. yes you are to cook for 5
minutes. it would good to use instant oatmeal.

PS. the recipe sounds really good.

Haha! I wanted to take cookies for a party once and wasn't going to have time to bake any homemade- so I was going to do "No-Bake" cookies- what I didn't realize at the time was that you still had to cook them just in a sauce pan- I was mad- needless to say I bought some from the store instead and put them in a container of my own- everyone thought they were so great. Since then, I have made them homemade. Guess that's what I get for thinking something'd be easy.

I use the powdered unsweeted Hersheys cocoa.
These oats are the QUICK kind. yes, like instant oatmeal
they are also called boiled cookies, so YES, do boil them for the 5 minutes; no baking required!
lots of great recipes at the hersheys website you should go take a look.





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