Chocolate No-Bakes

Name: Chocolate No-Bakes
Ingredients: 2 cups white sugar or 2 cups turbinado sugar, if you are veggie; 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa; 1/2 cup butter (I use a lite, no TFA margarine, and it works great!) or 1/2 cup margarine (I use a lite, no TFA margarine, and it works great!); 1/2 cup canned milk (or whatever you have); 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats; 1 1/2 cups coconut flakes

7 ingredients

10 steps

Ingredients

2 cups white sugar or 2 cups turbinado sugar, if you are veggie
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup butter (I use a lite, no TFA margarine, and it works great!) or 1/2 cup margarine (I use a lite, no TFA margarine, and it works great!)
1/2 cup canned milk (or whatever you have)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
1 1/2 cups coconut flakes

Directions

1

Lay out a 3 foot long piece of wax paper.
2

In a sauce pan, mix sugar and cocoa until ALL lumps are broken up and evenly mixed.
3

Turn the pan on MEDIUM (5) and add butter and milk, stirring the mixture and scraping the bottom of the pan CONSTANTLY.
4

*If using turbinado, heat over medium-low heat (3) until all granules are dissolved, then turn up to medium heat (5).
5

Boil for 90 seconds. No more -- One Mississippi style.
6

Remove from heat, add oats and coconut and MIX WELL!
7

Scoop out heaping Tablespoons and plop onto waxed paper. Tap down pan to settle.
8

WAIT! Allow to cool and firm up. Lick the empty bowl if you want a taste, otherwise you'll burn the fire outta your tongue!
9

ENJOY!
10

Store in a ziplock baggie or cookie jar. Unlike most cookies, DO NOT store with a heel of bread, it will ruin the texture!