Reclaimed wood ladder.

No need to grease it first because these really come unstuck very easily, I find.. And that’s pretty much it!You don’t even need to turn on the stove like with other no-bake cookie recipes!.

You’ll notice that this recipe makes a very small batch, perfect for making just a few cookies for yourself or to share with your kids one hot Summer afternoon.Since they require so little work and don’t really create any dishes other than one bowl, it’s one that I find I can make whenever I feel like it – kind of on an “as-needed” basis.But of course, feel free to triple or quadruple the recipe if you want to make a bunch to bring for a larger group!.

OK, so the half cookie is just because I ate a little too much right out of the mixing bowl.. Once you’ve got your 9.5 cookies on your cookie sheet, just stick them in the fridge for 10 minutes or so and you’ll be ready to chow down guilt-free-ish!Of course these cookies still have quite a bit of sugar in them, but the sweetness from the maple syrup is so much better than the huge amount of white sugar that the original recipe had!

I’ve tried this recipe with honey too and I liked it, but it wasn’t Kennedy’s favorite because she’s not much of a honey girl..

What kind of a monster am I raising over here?So, I kind of resigned myself to the fact that the nests would have to happen next year, and I’d have to come up with something cute with what I had on hand.

And then I had a nest-piphany!.I took one of the packages of moss that I had bought to use as filler here and there and started to kind of mold it into a nest shape.

I think these were so successful because of the type of moss that I happened to pick up.It’s kind of got these long, twisty strands that lock together nicely the more you coax them into shape.