5 Minute Cookies

This is the same basic recipe as "No Bake" cookies with the addition of coconut. The flavor is good, but follwing these directions, you would never be able to roll them into a ball. The "dough" is much too wet for that. I think the sugar mixture should have cooked longer to stiffen these up a bit. Next time, I will leave the peanut butter out of the coconut/oat mixture and add it along with the vanilla to the cooked sugar/cocoa mixture (after letting it boil for a few minutes), then add that mixture to the oats. I think this will yield a firmer cookie that will set up better. I did this recipe as a part of the Western Region's Faceless Frenzy July 2012.