Looking for a cookie recipe to delight family and friends but is easy to make? I have the recipe that you have been looking for and your search is over!

This recipe has no name other than "Cousin Helen's Cookies" because my grandmother - who died last year at the age of 92 - got the recipe from her cousin Helen who is now a very elderly woman.

It is simple and so good that I have trouble keeping my family out of the finished product long enough to share outside our home.

This is a no-bake recipe, the easiest no-bake recipe that I have ever made and I love to make cookies.

There are two mixtures. Ingredients for the first are as follows:

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup cocoa

1 stick butter (margarine will work too)

1/2 cup milk

Combine these ingredients together in a large sauce pan or pot on the stove. Stir until blended using a wooden spoon. Bring to a boil and continue to cook until the soft ball stage is reached. You can determine this using a candy thermometer or use the old-fashioned method which is to cook until a small amount of the boiling ingredients form a soft ball (smaller than a marble) when dropped into a cup of cold water.

When soft ball stage is reached, remove and pour over the second mixture. Have this ready in a second - and large bowl - with these ingredients:

3 cups quick oats

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

Stir together until well blended and be careful - it will be hot. Work as quickly as possible and then drop the mixture by teaspoon fulls onto wax paper.

Once each cookie cools and hardens, you can gather them up and store in a container. These are delicious, rich little bites of chocolate pleasure and really do melt in your mouth.

I like to keep mine in the fridge so that they won't melt in warm weather and they have been an instant hit anywhere I have ever taken them to share.

Enjoy!