The below recipe makes around 3 dozen table spoon sized portions but is easily doubled or tripled. Below you can read how to add a peanut buttery kick!
What You'll Need:
- 1 medium saucepan
- Wax paper/tin foil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup un-salted butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1.5 -2 cups rolled quick oats
- 1 cup flaked coconut (I liked mine un-sweetened)
- Spread a large sheet of either wax paper or tinfoil out on your work surface
- Add in your sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa into your saucepan
- Heat until it is gently boiling, stirring frequently
- When it has reached a gentle boil, cook for five minutes - don't stop stirring
- Remove the mixture from the heat and stir in your vanilla
- Stir in your oats and coconut
- You don't want the mixture too runny - if you feel it is, shake is some more of your oatmeal until it is a dense consistency
- Working quickly, drop tablespoon-sized amounts of hot mixture onto your paper-lined work top. Try to make the mixture dense by squishing it into the spoon so, when cooled, the haystack does not crumble apart
- Let cool and enjoy
This recipe is super easy and a great treat for summer picnics or if you have a chocolate craving.
Some people use Chinese noodles in place of the oatmeal, but I like the oatmeal version. You can also add in peanut butter, if that is your type of thing (stir in 1/4 cup once the mixture has been removed from the heat). Lately I have been adding in flaked quinoa in place of 1/2 cup of the oatmeal - delicious and hardly noticeable.
The STEWART SCORE:
Appearance: 1
Taste: 2
Ease: 2
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