OK, I'm sorry. I don't know, for sure, where that name came from, but I do know when we were kids we would ask Mom to make Dog Dumps. This is what we ended up with.
This recipe is SO simple. Rick gets after me for saying that about many things that I make, saying, "It might be so simple for you, but not for everyone." I know, that's true, only because I have experience from so many years of cooking, which includes lots of trial and error. However, this truly is such a simple recipe that even your children will do a great job with it.
Here's what you will need:
2 cups granulated sugar
4 Tbsp cocoa
1 stick butter
1/2 cup milk
1 cup peanut butter
1 tablespoon vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
In a heavy saucepan, add your sugar, cocoa, butter and milk. Bring to a boil and remove from heat after just one minute.
Immediately add your peanut butter, vanilla and oatmeal and stir until mixed thoroughly. Drop by spoonfuls* onto waxed paper. (In the picture you will see that I dropped them onto aluminum foil. That's because I discovered too late that I was out of waxed paper.) Let them cool completely.
*I like to use an ice cream scoop because you get nice, uniform scoops and because the scoop mechanism removes all of the mixture in one scoop, instead of having to coax it out with a spoon or your fingers. I use an ice cream scoop for every kind of cookie I make.
This recipe makes 32 cookies. They are caramel colored even though there is cocoa in them.
Don't let the silly name fool you - these are yummy!
Here's a clean up tip: As soon as you have scooped out all of the cookies, place your pan in the sink and fill with water to soak. If you don't, it becomes much more challenging to get that glue-like mixture out of the pan after it hardens.
Uh-oh! Caught with my hand in the cookie jar!
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