Ingredients: |
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons (6 ounces) butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 large eggs, beaten (See Recipe Note)
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut (we used shredded)
1 cup chopped pecans
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Directions: |
Directions:Preheat oven, prep baking sheets:
Preheat oven to 350°F with racks in upper and lower third. Line two large baking sheets with Silpat or parchment paper.
Whisk dry ingredients:
In a large bowl, vigorously whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
Dry ingredients in a bowl to make a batch of cowboy cookies
Make the cookie dough:
Place butter in a standing electric mixer and beat on medium speed until smooth and light, about 1 minute. Slowly add in the white sugar and brown sugar, and beat to combine, about 2 more minutes. Add half the eggs, beat, and then add the other half and beat again. Add the vanilla extract and beat again.
Overhead view of creaming butter and sugar to make Laura Bush's Cowboy Cookies
Creamed butter and sugar in a mixing bowl for a Cowboy Cookies recipe
Reduce the speed of the mixer to low and slowly add the flour mixture, until just combined. Add the chocolate chips, oats, coconut, and pecans, mixing until just combined.
Adding dry ingredients to a bowl of creamed eggs, sugar, and butter to make cowboy cookies
Chocolate chips, nuts, oats, and coconut added to a bowl of cookie dough to make cowboy cookies
Scoop out the cookies:
If you want large cookies, drop about 1/4 cup lumps of the dough onto the prepared cookie sheets, separated by 3 inches to allow for enough room for the cookies to spread as they cook.
For smaller cookies, use about 2 tablespoons of the cookie dough per cookie.
Scoops of dough on a sheet pan to bake for Laura Bush's Cowboy Cookies recipe
Bake the cookies:
Bake at 350°F for 14 to 18 minutes for large cookies, or 13 to 16 minutes for small cookies. Rotate the pan halfway through baking, front to bake and top to bottom.
Cool the cookies:
Remove from oven and let cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes. Then remove the cookies to a rack to cool completely.
You'll likely need to work in batches, depending on the size of your oven and your baking sheets. |
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Notes: |
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Notes: This recipe is a half recipe of the original, which calls for 3 eggs. To get half of 3 eggs, you can either just use only one egg, or beat two eggs and remove about 2 tablespoons.
The bigger the cookie, the more chewy it can be. So if you like chewy cookies, make them big. If you want a chewy cookie, cook them until the edges are browned, but not the whole cookie. If you cook the cookie until it is all nicely browned, it will be more crisp.
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