No bake chocolate cookies, oats stacks, haystacks, or whatever you call them I'm sure everyone has seen a variation of these cookies. They have an uncanny way of turning up at every bake sale, potluck or kids birthday party. Probably because they're super fast and require almost no skill to make. Just melt everything together, mix in oats and coconut, drop and you're done. You can get to the eating almost immediately.
They're chewy, chocolaty and the only cookie that I was able make the other night when my fridge was bereft of eggs. I threw them together and on top of a fresh batch of cookies I was left with a fantastically dirty pot to lick out. Yum.
Haystacks:
2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup cocoa
3 cups rolled oats
1 cup coconut
Combine first five ingredients in a large sauce pan and boil for 3 minutes. Then add the rolled oats and coconut and stir until dry ingredients are evenly coated with chocolate. To form cookies drop heaping tablespoons of batter onto wax paper lined cookie sheets and leave them to set. The cookies should be chilled, but they will set at room temperature. Store in airtight containers to prevent them from drying out.
Heavens I love these! Aren't they a joy to make? That picture looks fantastic. I feel like reaching to the screen to take one!
Posted by: Ana | October 02, 2005 at 06:39 AM
Ana,
These are certainly on the list of life's simple pleasures. Just looking at them makes me crave one for breakfast.
Posted by: Liz | October 04, 2005 at 09:08 AM
I remember those cookies..shaping like small balls,rolled with coconut..I ate thems so many years ago,
Thanks for this good recipe and a wonderful ! picture. ;)
Posted by: Chanit | November 09, 2005 at 09:10 PM
Chanit,
I hope they taste the same as you remember! Good luck.
Posted by: Liz | November 15, 2005 at 07:58 PM