peanut butter chocolate no-bake cookies

How To Make peanut butter chocolate no-bake cookies

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  Measure out all of the ingredients. Put the sugar & milk in a dutch oven. Have all other ingredients laid out in order of use. If you're making traditional no-bake cookies, tear off enough waxed paper for about 36 cookies. If you want "break apart" cookies, butter the bottom of a 13 x 9 baking dish with the end of the stick of butter you have lined up. (This works well when you're out of waxed paper, too.) You just break the cooked & cooled cookies into pieces.
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  Combine the sugar & milk in the dutch oven over MEDIUM heat, stirring constantly. When the mixture starts to bubble, boil it for one minute.
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  Leaving the pot on the heat, add the stick of butter, cocoa powder, and the peanut butter. Stir to melt & combine.
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  Remove the pot from the heat & add the vanilla. Stir well. Then add the oats...
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  ...and mix together well. (You have to work QUICKLY once you add the oats!)
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  Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper OR...
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  ...pour the mixture into the buttered baking dish. Spread to desired thickness. (Pictures 6 & 7 show 1/2 a recipe each.)
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  Cool & eat. Store leftover cookies in airtight containers. Cookie crumbles also make an excellent ice cream topping. I hear they freeze well, but that's never been proven at my house since they usually don't last long enough to properly cool. =^..^=
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  For a "peanut butter free" version of this recipe, just increase the sugar to 2 cups. The rest of the ingredients stay the same. Prepare the waxed paper or butter the pan, as written above. Have all of the ingredients measured & waiting, too, since it all goes fast. The directions are different: In a dutch oven or large saucepan, stir together the sugar, milk, margarine, and cocoa. Turn heat on HIGH. Stir until boiling. Quickly turn the heat to MEDIUM and stir & boil for 4 minutes only. Remove from heat. Add vanilla & stir. Add oatmeal & mix well. Drop spoonfuls onto the waxed paper or pour into the buttered pan. Cool.
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