5 Chocolate Owls: Suklaa-Polloja and Ski Poles

I found this recipe as a seven year old, while reading a children's magazine.

I showed my mother the recipe and begged her to make it.  It had 5 simple ingredients, required no baking and no cooking.

"Please, mom....can I make this?  Please..."  She reluctantly agreed.

One time making it was all it took.  I was hooked on this rich, buttery, chocolatey, chewy cookie.  So fast and so easy to make...

Fast forward to my college years.  

Once I introduced this recipe to my roommates, there was no turning back.  We made sure we stocked all the ingredients and made this on a regular basis.  We couldn't figure out how to pronounce "Suklaa-Polloja," and one of the roommates nick-named these cookies "Ski Poles."  The name stuck.

Fast forward to my early married years. 

Any time my new hubby and I had a disagreement, we would patch things up by making "Ski Poles."  We haven't made these for awhile....maybe that's a good thing!

Fast forward to last month.

Through the amazing technologies of the Internet and Face Book, I have been reconnected with these wonderful roommates.  While catching up and reminiscing, one gal wrote, "Do you remember Ski Poles? 

That was all I needed.  Ski Poles....

                                       

                                                

No Bake Chocolate Owls: Suklaa Polloja (Ski Poles)

Yield: approx. 24 cookies

Author: Frieda Franchina, adapted from The Children's Friend magazine

Prep time: 15 min
Chill time: 2 hours
Total time:  2 hours 15 min

No bake cookies full of chocolate flavor, oats and rolled in powdered sugar

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter, room temp (no substitute)
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 Tablespoon cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Instructions:

Chocolate No Bake Cookies: Ski Poles

1. In a medium mixing bowl, combine butter and sugar. You can use an electric mixer and the paddle attachment.
2. Add oats & cocoa powder, mixing well.
3. Add vanilla extract.
4. Using a 2T. cookie scoop, scoop out mixture and roll into balls.
5. Roll each ball in powdered sugar.
6. Put cookies in a covered container and set in the fridge till firm, about 2 hours.