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No Bake Cookies (Or So I Thought)

Today I left Junior at my mum's for about five hours, to bottle train but it was a total failure. Sigh. Why oh why won't my darling not drink from the bottle! How would he survive without milk when I'm back at work! :(

Anyway. I decided to make No Bake Cookies.

I have loads of Hershey's chocolate that Other Half brought back from his NY trip a couple of months ago. As much as I love chocolate, I was disappointed with the Hershey's pack he bought! Doesn't taste like good chocolate at all. Even the Kisses aren't good.

While looking for recipes at random, I came across one which could make use of Reese's peanutbutter cups, the chocolate I dislike among the mix. It looks fast, simple and no baking required! It is the No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies.

Ingredients that I use which I shouldn't have adjusted to:
  • 125g butter
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 and a half cup Reese's Peanutbutter Cups
  • 3 cups quick oatmeal
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preparation:
Place chocolate peanut butter, oats, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Combine the margarine, milk, and sugar in a saucepan; bring to a full rolling boil. Boil for 1 full minute. Combine the hot mixture with the oatmeal and chocolate chip mixture; stir well. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper or parchment paper.

Reese's Peanutbutter Cup chocolate. I don't like the sharpness of the peanut butter and chocolate combined.



One cup of chocolate was called for in the recipe, but what's the harm in adding more? :)


Chopped up buttercup chocolate!

Okay then the cooking part. Somehow I didn't get it right :( Either I didn't boil it too long, or I should've added more oatmeal. I reduced the sugar by half a cup because I thought the chocolate & excess peanut butter would cover for it, but I guess that disturbed the balance for the cookie to harden. And maybe not using parchment paper resulted in too much butter? Paper would've absorbed the excess butter.
Hence, gooey flat yuckness.


It tasted good though! Just that you have to eat it with a spoon -_-"

So I decided to put some in the muffin tray hahaha. And refrigerate.


But it's still not hard enough. Sigh.

Then for some of it, I decided to put in mini cups! With the hope that it'll follow the shape and harden. HAHA.


But it didn't, Oh well. I doubt Other Half would want to eat these. Next time! Add more oatmeal! Was contemplating on adding flour and baking it in the oven. I know. Defeats the purpose right. Haha. Maybe I'll modify it tomorrow.

Or maybe I'll make vanilla sables tomorrow! And use my all new Chip and Dale cookie cutter!! Yay!
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