Even if you were good, you will want these sweet lumps of coal

So last year I slaved over cookies for Roman's class, I really just put all I had into the cookies, I even made three kinds - sugar, gingerbread and chocolate sugar. They were good and they were awesome looking, but they were a BEATING!

My mom gingerly told me that maybe I put too much effort into it all because this day in age most people don't understand what went into those cookies. I thought about it and decided she was right!

So here we are in 2011. Things have changed, life is much more demanding and I have only made ONE batch of cookies so far this Christmas Season. So tomorrow is Roman's class party. I could not send him empty handed - I just could not do that but, I had not prepared ANYTHING for his class. But, thanks to my new found obsession - PINTREST, I found a simple recipe called "Lumps of Coal." It is no bake, no hassle and finished in about 20 minutes. How you decide to dress it up is entirely up to you.

Recipe:

 

One single package of Oreos

One bag of marshmallows

4 tbs butter

In your food processor, process the Oreos down to fine crumbs.

Once you are complete with that step, measure off 5 cups of marshmallows and your butter.

Place them in a large microwave bowl.

Heat them up until the marshmallows are puffed up. (aprox. 1.5 minutes to 2 minutes)

Fold in the Oreos. This is going to take muscle and you will want to work quickly.

Once the mixture is complete spread the cookies on a non-stick surface.  I used my Silpat mat for this.

I pressed them out with my hands until the mixture was about 1" thick.

Using a small square cookie cutter I began to cut the "Lumps of Coal."

I re-rolled the excess until I only had small pieces that I could not work with.

Let them set for about 20 minutes.

And package!

I found these really cute tags on this blog called eighteen25. Here is the link for the free printables!

And there you go - FINISHED. I think it has taken me longer to write the blog entry for this than it did to make the concotion. It is all genius and very simple. See, you can be a MARTHA STEWART!

Enjoy!