3 cups Oats (any will work)
1/2 cup Milk
2 Cups Sugar
1/2 cup Cocoa
1 stick of Margarine
2 tsp vanilla (I never measure this one)
*1 adorable kitchen helper or two, they are in charge of stirring the oats in a separate bowl, and helping out with the cookies

Boil Sugar, Cocoa, Margarine until the mixture coats a spoon. It will look like thinned yummy Hot Fudge Sauce. Add in the Oats and stir well. Let the mixture hang out for 7-10 minutes in the warm pan, and then spoon the cookie mixture onto waxed paper.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

If you have cinnamon you could make Snickerdoodles or Oatmeal Raisin cookies too. I hope that you are staying warm! Have fun at the bake sale, wish I was there to help! Sending hugs your way

I need a cookie recipe for our school bake sale, one that can be made with pantry (oops: typed ‘panty’ hee hee) staples. I have a little bit of cocoa, no chocolate chips, but I have flour, sugar, butter, spices…might have some molasses. Probably have some raisins.

Too cold to go shopping (-35C)…any ideas???

Yours truly;
Your freezing cold, frazzled Canadian friend.