1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
4 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (or chunky but is seems to make a more crumbly dry cookie)
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 -3 1/2 cups dry quick-cooking oats
Directions:
1
Add the first four ingredients into a 4-quart sauce pan.
2
Bring to a rolling boil and hold for 1 minute.
3
Remove from heat.
4
Add peanut butter into the hot mixture and stir until melted.
5
Add in vanilla. (almond extract is good also, but I only use 1/2 teaspoon almond and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla).
6
Mix in the oats and drop by tablespoons onto wax paper.
7
Let cool until set.
* Be sure ti use Quick Cooking Oats and not Old Fashioned >.> Here is what they look like
