These cookies turned out great; instead of cocoa, I used half a bag of regular chocolate chips. My husband is pigging out on them as we speak - LOL! Guess I'll have to make more tomorrow. :-)

I didn't put milk in. Instead I put in Almond Milk. YUMM!!!

for those of you having problems getting them to set up properly, try cooking the cocoa mixture longer. I noticed many mention 1 minute, I would try 3.

i add pecans to mine! one of my favorite cookies ever!

Try spooning mix in a jelly roll pan if you like bar cookies. I used to dislike making cookies because of all the time it took. I make all my cookies in a pans now. Just baked peanut butter cookies in a jelly roll pan, complete with the fork marks!

I have been Eating these cookies since I was a little girl, We would take them camping with us. This is the first cookie I learned to make. My kids LOVE them, now when one of my boys have a birthday they BEG me to make them. They get one cookie for every year, And since they are all grown they get more than enough. No more Birthday cakes at our house lol

Mine never set up right until I started boiling them for 3 1/2 minutes. I start timing when they come to a rolling boil.

I have been making these for the last 40 plus years. We called them preacher cookies, because all the church ladies made them for our Lords Acre sale we did every fall.

Followed instructions and they turned out just perfect and yummy. We made without the cocoa too and they were yummy plain too.

I've been making these for more than 30 years, and my three grown sons still call these 'Yummy Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Thingys'! They can clean up a batch in just a few minutes and they rarely wait til they're cool!

This recipe was used only at Christmas in my family when I was growing up. They were called Chocolate Burrs. Coconut was used. Never heard of peanut butter as an ingredient. Will try this Christmas. When I had my family, my sons called them Poo Cookies. Now my sons are married and make these at Christmas. The tradition lives on!!!

Enjoyed reading all the comments about these cookies. I noticed many people have mentioned you can't make them during rainy weather or that they are too hard or too soft. Having made handdipped chocolates for many years I can tell you you can fix these problems by controlling cooking time instead of trying to cook at specific time the sugars need to be cooked to a certain stage usually soft ball, or even use a candy thermometer if you have 1 try testing different temps until you get the right 1 for you

I am making them today hope they come out OK, for people who cant have peanut butter, like my grandkids we use sunbutter, it tastes like peanut butter but better.

You do not want to use quick oats to make these, they will not stick together.

Love these cookies dearly, for those that have trouble getting there cookies to harden you could try adding 4 large marshmallows to recipe as the gelitan factor helps with them getting hard.

Otherwise I cook them the same as recipe. Sometimes I add half cup of coconut also to recipe.