I've heard these called many names... I prefer No Bake!

No Bake Cookies
1 cube butter or margarine
2 C. sugar
1/2 C. cocoa
1/2 C. milk
combine and boil for 1 minute.
Stir in: 1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 C. peanut butter
3 C. quick oats
Mix and drop on wax paper. Let cool.

You can be creative with this recipe. We did them as Dinosaur Delight once and as we added ingredients we called them: Dirt(cocoa), Swamp water (green food color in the milk), Crushed Dino bones(sugar), Fat (butter), Squashed bugs(peanut butter), Dino tears (vanilla), and Dead grass (oatmeal).