cookies

A Conversation about the Cookies

Not sure if what I did is going to work, but this is the original recipe I found online:

Peanut Butter Oatmeal No Bake Cookies (No Wheat / No Egg)
Recipe 125209 | 11 min | 10 min prep
Cookies in five minutes! No wheat or egg so these are great for wheat or egg free diets. A friend gave me the original recipe that called for white sugar and they were great that way. I tried it with brown sugar and that is the ONLY way I'll fix them now! Totally a new level. Only takes 10 minutes total to prepare these.
12 cookies (change servings and units)
Ingredients


3 cups old-fashioned oatmeal (dry, sometimes takes more oatmeal)
5 tablespoons peanut butter (reduced fat works great)
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup milk (Non fat works great)
1/4 cup butter
Directions


1 Mix together the first three ingredients. Set aside.

2 Stir together sugar, milk, and butter in Medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat stirring occasionally - full boil for ONE minute.

3 Immediately pour over oatmeal mixture and stir thoroughly but rapidly.

4 Spoon cookie size scoops (a heaping tablespoon) onto waxed paper or plastic wrap and let set until firm

MY SUBSTITUTIONS:
I only had about two tablespoons of Peanut butter left in the jar. So I drizzled the last 1/8 of an inch from the carmel sqeeze thing to substitute.
Since I did that I reduced the sugar by 1/2 a cup
I added diced dried cherries to the oatmeal mix
I barely had enough butter. I was really about 1/3 a cube short on the stick of real butter in my fridge.
I also put mine in the fridge to get them to set up better because they looked a little runny...but it made much bigger cookies then I would have thought...not twelve...Lv M


My dear friend on CM - TxShySub - is always nice about following my blogs. He gives me ideas and we bounce around arguements on occassion. He read my cookie receipe and sent this:

Here's a suggestion for next time...when adding the caramel instead of some of the peanutbutter, and taking a bit of the sugar out, replace that halfcup of sugar with oatmeal....that way it should setup without looking runny. The caramel adds some extra moisture which you can soak up with the extra oatmeal.


;-)


Also, you could have added extra oatmeal and brown sugar instead of the caramel. The brown sugar is made with molasses, so it's got some extra moisture to add, just not as much as peanutbutter, so if youare short by a half cup of peanuter butter, add 1/6 cup oatmeal and 1/3 cup brown sugar.... ;-)


Just some suggestions....how'd they turn out? I like the idea of the dried cherries, just not sure about the taste.....Hmmmm, here's a though, if you have some milke chocolate or some chocolate bark, melt it in a fondue type pot, and then coat the cookies so you have a chocolate covered cherry peanutbutter cookie....now that sounds yummy.

My reply: [AND THIS IS THE UPDATE ON HOW THESE CAME OUT]

Those first suggestions you provided were given on the website by others who had tried it too...I generally read those to get an idea of what has and hasnot been tried...Do you mind if I use this exchange in my blog to give my readers other options?

Problems for me on this batch: Not anymore oatmeal. I didn't have any brown sugar or molasses, either. I was trying to avoid chocolate. I [again] didn't have any.
These edited recipes generally have to do with what I am limited by with what I already have on hand.

They turned out sticky but yummy. It helped when I rolled them into balls. They kinda have a praline appeal. The cherry turned out to be a brilliant idea. Added a little extra stickiness. They have a peanut butter and jelly like flavor.

We're leaving them in the fridge because they are good cold.

According to my daughter I am fucking awesome. Must not suck too much.

Lv M
Ps. I am thinking of modifying it once again with peanut butter and marshmellow fluff, sans the cherries but with chocolate chips perhaps. We'll see what I pick up at the grocery store next time.

Obviously he gave permission...Lv M