No-Bake Haystacks Recipe
- 3 cups quick cooking oats
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1 cup roasted peanuts, chopped
- 1 cup raisins (optional)
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Mix the oats, coconut, peanuts, and raisins together in a large bowl.
- Stir the sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa powder together in a saucepan and bring to a boil; boil for 1 minute and immediately remove from heat. Stir the vanilla into the cocoa mixture; pour over the oat mixture and stir to coat. Scoop heaping tablespoonfuls of the mixture and drop into haystack-like piles onto waxed paper; allow to cool completely before serving.
