Hey no bake cookies and granola bars and are alot of fun because you never make the same batch twice.  The possibilities are endless with such additives like berries, nuts, sugars/syrups, oats, chocolate and on.  Then jams, frostings and butters make great toppings, and with a garnish we're talking about things like Nanaimo bars.  However a great basic recipe to begin with would look something like this:

2cups Granulated sugar

8tbsp Butter

1/2cup 2% Milk

3cups of Oats

and optional flavours such as:

Cocoa, Berries, Mint, or Magic Baking Powder (And im not talkin the chemical leavener)

Step 1: Combine the sugar, butter and milk (and cocoa is optional but should be added at this stage,) in a saucepan and bring that *** up to a heavy simmer be careful not to burn this, it would suck to clean.

Step2: Take off the heat and add your oats, and your berries, or/and herbs

 Cool i hope you enjoy, cooking is fun

Here's the recipe I got from my grandmother...

Take 1 cup of sugar and cream in 1/2 lb of a good unsalted butter

add 3 tablespoons of vanilla extract, 1 cup of buttermilk and 1 egg

combine with 3 cups of quick cooking oats (or 1/2 cup + 1/2 cup of flour)

roll into a tube using Saran-wrap

and freeze

removed from the freezer once frozen and place the tube in the nearest

refuse container because it tastes like crap and go grab a bag of Oreos. 

OK...here, We made these last month and they were good.

from: http://www.abc.net.au/children/play/make/recipes/fridgecook.htm

Refrigerator Cookies

Ingredients
 
1 cup sugar
125g butter
1 egg
3 tablespoons cocoa or 60g melted chocolate
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 & 1/2 cups self-raising flour
about 1/4 cup milk

Directions
 
• Add sugar gradually to butter and beat until creamy.
• Beat in egg.
• Add cocoa and vanilla.
• Sift flour and stir into the mixture with milk (less than 1/4 cup if too runny).
• Shape dough into long rolls about 5cm in diameter. (If too soft, chill until it can be handled easily. Do not use additional flour).
• Cover with waxed paper (or plastic film).
• Place in fridge for 24 hours (If you want to keep it longer, put in freezer).