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These quick-to-make cookies are at their absolute best when served slightly warm along with a glass of cold milk. Perfect for satisfying that sudden urge for something sweet and chocolatey. Whip up a batch and watch them disappear!

No Bake Chocolate Cookies

1/2 cup butter or margarine

2 (1-ounce) squares unsweetened baking chocolate*

2 cups granulated sugar

Pinch kosher or coarse salt

1/2 cup 2% milk

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 cups quick-cooking oats

1. Have all ingredients measured and ready. Line a baking sheet with waxed paper or foil; set aside.
2. In a large heavy saucepan melt the butter and chocolate over medium heat, stirring constantly. Add the sugar, salt and milk and continue stirring until mixture comes to a full rolling boil. Without stirring, let mixture boil for exactly 3 minutes, no more - no less. Immediately remove from heat.
3. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla, stirring until peanut butter has melted. Quickly stir in the oats, mixing well.
4. Working fast, drop mixture by spoonfuls onto waxed paper or foil. Allow to cool and become firm, about 30 minutes.

Makes 24 cookies.

*Or substitute chocolate squares with 6 tablespoons baking cocoa and increase the butter to 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons. Combine the sugar, salt and baking cocoa in the saucepan first, slowly add the milk while stirring until all ingredients are moistened; add the butter and continue as directed above.

Cook's Tip: If the mixture is accidentally overcooked, it will result in extremely dry cookies, sometimes so crumbly the mixture will not hold together enough to form a cookie. If this sort of thing occurs once the oats are added, then stir a tablespoon of milk (more or less) at a time until the mixture is moist enough to work with. Under cooking the mixture will result in cookies that must be eaten with a spoon...or may harden overnight!

Cook's Note: A reader shared that in the 1960's, her mother spread a similar cookie mixture into a greased 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan. Once cooled, the mixture was cut into squares. What a great tip!

Nutrition Facts (per serving: 1 cookie): 212.4 calories; 32% calories from fat; 8.2g total fat; 11.8mg cholesterol; 48.9mg sodium; 152.7mg potassium; 31.8g carbohydrates; 2.6g fiber; 18.0g sugar; 29.2g net carbs; 5.0g protein.

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