No Cook Cookies!

At home I bake quite often, I find it's a great way to take a break from homework and you get a delicious reward once you're done. The kitchen here is difficult to work in, the elements are quite temperamental and the oven needs some tampering with to get it going. But I figured I'd give Grandma K's Maui No Cook Cookies a try.

Obstacle 1: Obtaining the recipe and translating. I had to wait until someone back at home came online and I figured both parents would be needed: Mom to find the recipe and dad to scan it to me. That process was easy enough, and with Google translate I figured out all the Portuguese words pronto!

Obstacle 2: Finding the correct ingredients. This proved to be the most difficult task. The grocery store isn't very big, but it is packed full of items which are easy to miss. Leite (milk), açúcar (sugar) and manteiga (butter) were easy to find, and instead of buying the expensive pack of sweetened coconut I opted for buying a fresh Coco (coconut) and chopping it up myself. Finding cacau (coco) and aveia (oats) was a different story. Finally I found a container of good ol' Quaker Oats that looked like it had been sitting on the same shelf for a few years. Since I couldn't locate pure cacau, I went to the next best thing and bought the only hot chocolate mix that had cacau listed as the first ingredient.

Obstacle 3: Cooking to No Cook Cookies. This was easy enough; just melt, boil, stir, mix and cool. The real challenge here was not eating it all at once! The cookies turned out great and maybe for my next kitchen adventure I'll take on the oven.