Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies

I almost feel guilty (but not really!) These cookies were so simple that it took me 40 minutes from start to finish. How do I know that? Well, I called Danielle G. this morning as I pulled out the cookbook. As we talked, I located all of the ingredients and started putting it together. It took only minutes to mix it. By the time we finished our conversation, I had dropped all of the dough into little cookies on my cookie sheets to cool. I looked at the phone as we said goodbye...40 minutes.

If you like chocolate and sugar, this is the recipe for you. In fact, I would bet that most households have the ingredients on hand. It was just peanut butter, butter, sugar, cocoa, oats, vanilla and salt. Quick, easy, DONE! There's really not much more to say.

I tried to jazz up the packaging a little since I got off so easy on the cookies. I used chinese take out containers and pasted scrapbook paper on them to make them pretty. I can't compete with Phoebe's pictures so I did my best to be creative and still capture the cookie.

I plan on saving our planet by waiting to deliver these cookies to my friends tonight when we get together for a movie night. I'm chuckling at this thought because once I was determined to get through the whole summer on $100 of gas. It was the summer that gas spiked to $4.00/gallon. Well, I saw Angie at a 4th of July fireworks party and she asked how it was going. Unfortunately, it was only the 4th of July and I had already blown through the $100. Then I admitted to her that I accidentally locked my keys in the car a few days earlier while the car was running! Oops!

shelly