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There are lots of kid-friendly recipes, those geared to be safe and easy for children to prepare. Here, I'll share the recipe we used to prepare as little girls. Plus, I'll list my favorite children's recipe pages from here at Squidoo by my fellow Squidoo writers. Hope you enjoy. :)

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Peanut Butter Delight!

Since The Seventh Grade

Today, I am not a cook. I do cook, but it's purely for sustenance; I'll never make it as a chef, and I am reconciled. But, as children, when we moved to a new school in the seventh grade, we fell in love, not only with the ice cream store where you could get yourself a Popsicle at recess, but with the big peanut-buttery balls of chocolate served at lots of lunch times. The school called them Peanut Butter Delights. Our grocery store calls them "no-bake cookies."

My sister and I got the recipe from the lunch room and were soon feeding the whole neighborhood of after-schoolers with as many peanut butter delights as we could make.

As time went on, we lost the recipe — until my sister got the bright idea to write the school some thirty years later and ask if they still have it. About two Peanut Butter Delight is a school girl's friend!weeks later, she was answered with a neatly written recipe. And we were pleasantly surprised, and deeply touched, to find a whole tin of peanut butter delights in the mail right along with the recipe! The little cookies were lovingly made and sent by the lunch-room lady.

And I have to hand it to my sister, she makes the best ones I've seen or tasted. She'll place them on a platter once they are done, and they'll have that special chocolate sheen on them. Very pretty. The sheen doesn't make them taste any better, but you would think she sees them as "failures" if they don't get that sheen on there. :)

We were 12 and 13, when we used to make them. Some children are not ready for the stove by this age, so you'll have to use your judgment as to whether you let them alone with this. It does require a very hot stove, and anything could happen, so I recommend that you be there with them while they make it.

Here's the peanut butter delight recipe...

Peanut Butter Delight Recipe

1 stick butter
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup peanut butter (smooth or crunchy)
3 cups oatmeal (Has to be "quick oats." We use Quaker Quick Oats)
1 teaspoon vanilla

Measure out all of your ingredients. The secret to these cookies is to not have to look for what you need, but to have it there ready and waiting — including wax paper laid out on the table or counter to spoon them onto. (Yes, you can pour your finished recipe from the cooking pan into a pan sprayed with Pam, then cut them to size once they've set.)

Place the butter into a large frying pan. Let it melt. Stir in the milk, sugar, and cocoa. Let it come to a boil. Once boiling briskly, let it boil for ninety seconds (1 1/2 minutes). No more, no less. Remove from the heat and stir in the peanut butter, oatmeal, and vanilla. As soon as these last three ingredients are mixed, spoon onto waxed paper into cookie-sized mounds. Once, they set, they're ready to serve.

Do note that sometimes they don't have a chance to cool before they're all gone. Sometimes a glass of milk and a warm peanut butter delight (or two) just hits the spot. :)

Another note: I think you can decrease the amount of oatmeal somewhat according to your taste. You might want to experiment with that.

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