The dictionary describes snacks as food eaten between meals. I know that having something tasty to eat between meals has been an important part of my life. The snacks I had as a child are some of the same ones I have now. But there was one my mother made that I just never wanted to continue making myself.
The snack my mom would make was one that she had as a child. It was made of ordinary things found in any cupboard. Milk, bread, sugar, and butter were the ingredients. Butter on the bread, sugar on the butter and milk over all of it. It took hunger away but I did not particularly like it.
We did have chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies fairly often but there were always those occasions when there was nothing to snack on and we’d be starving. These times required creative thinking. We’d have cereal (so what if it was close to bedtime) or we’d open a box of Lipton Noodle Soup and add some additional noodles. These were OK snacks. I don’t know when we discovered the recipe for Minute Cookies. But it became the standard answer to our often asked question, “What can we eat?” Now my children make these for their families.
Minute Cookies are perfect when there is an emergency snack craving. They can be made from start to finish in about 15 minutes, and they are yummy. They taste like a piece of fudge with oatmeal. So they are good for you too. The only problem with them is it’s hard to stop eating them.
In case you have never had the good fortune to find this recipe, here it is and remember don’t eat too many at one time.
Chocolate No-Bake Cookies
¼” cup cocoa ½ cup peanut butter
2 cups sugar 3 cups oatmeal
½ cup butter 1 tsp. vanilla
½ cup milk
Boil the first 4 ingredients for 1-2 minutes. Add peanut butter and vanilla to the mixture. Add the oatmeal and mix. Drop by spoonful on a cookie sheet. Let cool. Makes about 2 dozen.