Missouri Cookies:

My mother gave me this recipe. Who knows where she got it, but it's delicious!


Sauce Ingredients:

2 cups white sugar
3 tbsp. cocoa powder
1/4 lb. butter
1/2 cup milk

Add ingredients to saucepan. Cook 1 minute after it starts to boil (now my mother's saying 2 minutes...go figure). Don’t stir.

Dough Ingredients:

2 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup coconut (or 1 cup oatmeal if you don't like coconut)


Directions:

Add to chocolate mixture (sauce). Stir all together. Drop in spoonfuls onto wax paper. Let cool and eat. YUM!