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Cowboy cookies start with a delicious oatmeal chocolate chip cookie base, but are loaded with pecans and coconut flakes too.
Today is the first day of school here and the first day of school means one thing at my house – chocolate chip cookies. For many years I made chocolate chip cookies on the first day of school to welcome my kids home.
Even though there is no one currently living at my house that will be starting school today I still felt the need to make chocolate chip cookies. So I gave these cowboy cookies a tryl
Cowboy cookies start with a nice soft, chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookie and then you add chopped pecans and coconut flakes.
I don’t know why it is called a cowboy cookie? But I do know that they are delicious.
Ingredients Needed
- All Purpose Flour
- Old Fashioned Oatmeal
- Sugar, granulated sugar and dark brown sugar
- Butter
- Eggs
- Vanilla Extract
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Milk Chocolate Chips
- Coconut Flakes
- Pecans
How To Make Cowboy Cookies
- Cream butter and sugars in a bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs and vanilla extract and stir to mix.
- Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture and combine thoroughly.
- Mix in oatmeal until combined
- Stir in chocolate chips, chopped pecans, and coconut flakes.
- Scoop dough onto parchment covered cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees F until cookies are set but have not begun to brown, about 7-10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
Tips from leigh Anne
- The secret to these cookies is to NOT overbake them. Â You actually want them to look underbaked. Â The cookies should not start to turn brown around the edges, just have an all over light brown color.
- Store any uneaten cookies in a brown paper bag to keep them soft and chewy.
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Cowboy Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 C dark brown sugar
- 1 C granulated sugar
- 1 C butter softenend
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 C flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cup old fashioned oatmeal
- 12 oz milk chocolate chips.
- 3/4 cup coconut flakes
- 3/4 cup pecans chopped
Instructions
- Cream together sugars and butter for 3 minutes or until light and fluffy.
- Add in eggs and vanilla. Mix.
- Add in dry ingredients except oatmeal. Mix throughly.
- Mix in oatmeal until combined
- Add chocolate chips, chopped pecans, and coconut flakes.
- Scoop onto parchment covered cookie sheet.
- Bake 7-10 minutes at 350 degrees, DO NOT overbake. Cookies should just start to brown.
Tips & Notes:
- Do not over bake these cookies. You want them to be a light brown when you take them out of the oven.
- Store cookies in a brown paper bag to keep soft.
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Mary Smith says
Made these yesterday. They are awesome. My husband can’t stop eating them.