How to Make No-Bake Skillet Cookies!

Remember those wonderful chocolate fudge cookies from childhood? You can easily make these rich no-bake cookies by following my three easy steps! They will melt in your mouth!

Things You'll Need

• Margarine
• Sugar
• Hershey Baking chocolate
• Milk
• Vanilla
• Peanutbutter
• Quick-Cooking Oats
• Wax Paper
• Iron Skillet

Instructions

1. This cookie recipe works fast so you must be prepared without interruption for about 10 minutes. You will need 2 Pot Holders, one to hold the skillet and one to place the hot skillet on the counter, a Wooden Spoon to stir the cookies in the skillet and a regular tablespoon to drop the cookies onto the wax paper to harden.
   * Prep
   Lay out two sheets of wax paper on a flat counter where the cookies can cool for an hour without being disturbed! Each sheet should be about the length of an average cookie sheet!
   Gather all your ingredients before starting.
   Premeasure everything except vanilla for ease!
   2 sticks of Margarine, I use parkay
   1 1/2 cups of white sugar
   1/4 cup Hershey's baking chocolate (Powder variety!)
   1 Teaspoon Vanilla (Do not premeasure this!)
   1 1/2 cups of Quick-cooking instant oatmeal in the round box! (Not the Old Fashion Oats!)
   1 cup Peanutbutter (I like chunky, but you can use smooth too!)

2. *Cooking
   1. Place an iron skillet on a large burner, turn the heat to high.
   2. Add both sticks of margaine, and let the margarine melt completely stirring as needed to prevent scorching.
   3. Add the sugar, stir
   4. Add the milk, stir
   5. Add the chocolate, stir
   6. Start timing your liquid as soon as it starts to boil.
   7. Boil 1 1/2 minutes = 90 seconds! I count 1001, 1002, 1003 ect.
   8. Remove from heat
   9. Carefully Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla, it will splatter a little so stand back, stir.
   *Quickly work through the next steps!!!
   10. Add peanutbutter, Stir a little
   11. Add oats, quickly stir until well blended.

3. *Finish
   Move the skillet to the counter next to the wax paper. Place the skillet on a pot holder.
   Using the tablespoon quickly drop a tablespoon full of chocolate mixture onto the wax paper until all the mixture is gone.
   ***Warning: Do NOT touch this mixture as it will burn you!!!
   Let the cookies air cool for an hour until they are hard. Remove from the wax paper and store in an air-tight container. Enjoy!

Tips & Warnings

• The key to this recipe is to be prepared before starting!

• Do not make these cookies on a humid day!

• If your cookies get too hard, you cooked them too long!

• If your cookies don't get hard, you didn't cook them long enough!

• This mixture is a lot like fudge and will burn you during the cooking phase!