These cookies have it all! Peanut butter, oatmeal, coconut, chocolate chips, Reese’s, M&Ms, you name it! To mix it up, you can use individual candy-bar sized packages. The more you throw in, the more fun the cookies are. Here’s a chance to use your imagination. The cookies in the picture use ½ cup of coconut, Reese’s, M&Ms, and a cup of chocolate chips. Kids will love dumping in all the fun ingredients, almost as much as they’ll love eating them.

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Want a wonderful homemade gift that travels well, keeps well, and gets rave reviews? Here’s your recipe. They look great in a canning jar with a ribbon around it. These candied nuts melt in your mouth. If you put out a bowl of them, watch as people eat them. They’ll grab a couple, pop them in their mouth and start to walk away. Then the flavor hits, and they turn around a grab another handful. They then touch a friend’s arm and point to the bowl. You’ll be glad the recipe makes almost 2 lbs of treats when you have to keep refilling the bowl.

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My son was away at Penn State (go LIONS!!!) for Halloween, and asked me if I could come up with a recipe to top his favorite candy. Although the instructions look complicated, it really doesn’t take much time to make them. Using a plastic bag instead of a pastry brush cuts down on the work. Making them large also helps, and I didn’t get any complaints about them being big!

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