Abby, Zoë and Enzo

Zoë was very upset that she wasn't able to help with anything at dinner time, since it was Abby's night to help with dinner alone.  However, after dinner (salad) I remembered that Chris had saved a recipe for me that he'd come across online.  So, off to the kitchen Zoë and I went to try them out.  'Mrs. B' whose website this was found on, says that she adds a good deal less sugar, and sometimes substitues some of the butter with other things.  We liked the taste of them, Chris didn't like the texture of the oats though.  Next time I'll add probably just a little over a cup of sugar and tinker with the other stuff... maybe using applesauce for some of the butter or something.

2 cup sugar
1/2c milk
1/2c cocoa
one stick of butter
1/2c Peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups of oats


Put the first four ingredients in a pot, bring to a boil add the pb and vanilla, let boil one minute. Remove from the heat and stir in the oats. Spoon onto a cookie sheet adn let cool (or eat hot out of bowl if you are impatient like me )

The girls and I licked the spoons, then we let the others cool.  Before dropping the mix onto parchment paper to cool, I let is set in the pan a few minutes.  By the time they were cool enough for the girls to have for snack, they did hold together but were still pretty gooey.  Later in the evening, when I was packaging them up, I noted that they did indeed set much more to handle like an actual cookie.