Chocolate No-bakes

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups 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

Recipe

• 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!