Charlie Browns

I love church cookbooks. When you can't find a favorite childhood recipe anywhere else, it will always be in a local church cookbook. And the smaller the church--the better the cookbook.


Someone brought Charlie Browns (a wonderful chocolate-peanut butter oatmeal no-bake cookie) to Grandma's on July 4. I have wanted them ever since. So, tonight I hunted up the recipe. It wasn't to be found in my tried-and-true Betty Crocker cookbook. It wasn't in the local junior league cookbooks. It wasn't even in my mom's church's cookbook. I finally found it in my grandmother's church cookbook. (This church might have 100 members, but they've got some great recipes.)

Here's the recipe for Charlie Browns (Thanks to Mrs. Rogers of Beulah Baptist Church.):

1 stick butter
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups oatmeal
1 teaspoon vanilla

Bring butter, milk, sugar, and cocoa to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter, oatmeal, and vanilla. (At this point, I let it cool for a few minutes (7 or so). ) Scoop it out in tablespoons onto wax paper and allow to cool and harden.

Enjoy!