Sunday, October 26, 2008

No Bake Peanut butter Chocolate Oat Cookies aka Vegan Haystacks

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

1/2 cup margarine (Earth Balance)
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup soy milk
4 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups quick cooking oats

Directions:

1. In a large pot, bring margarine, sugar, milk and cocoa to a boil. Stirring constantly, let boil for ONLY 1 minutes until mixture is completely melted. Do not over boil or they will not set.
2. Take mixture off heat and stir in peanut butter and vanilla until completely melted. Stir in oats.
3. Drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture into mufin papers and allow to cool and set. When cool, take them out of the papers and turn cookies over to dry the bottoms. I generally place them all in the freezer at this point since they are so yummy COLD and it helps them to set best. Letting them set initially in the paper cups gives them more shape and are therefore more asthetically appealing.

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