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Cowboy/Ranger Cookies, Laura Bush's Texas Governor's Mansion Recipe Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
2 cups sweetened flake coconut
1 cup chopped pecans
Directions:
Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a bowl. Set aside.
In a very large bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy. Gradually beat in sugars and combine thoroughly.
Add eggs one at a time, beating after each. Beat in vanilla.
(Switch to now mixing with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon.)
Stir in flour mixture until just combined.

NOTE: You may reach a point when you're blending in the flour and remaining ingredients that you feel like things will never come together. It will ... just keep stirring. This becomes a very thick, hearty dough by the time that all ingredients are incorporated.
Stir in chocolate chips, oats, coconut and pecans (if using).

For each cookie, drop a heaping, rounded tablespoon onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper ... spacing 2 - 3 inches apart. (Eight cookies per large baking sheet works best so that the cookies do not touch once baked.)

Bake for 8 - 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and cookies are still slightly doughy in the center. (Rotate baking sheet halfway through.) Allow cookies to cool on sheet pan for 2 - 3 minutes on counter, then transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
make 4 1/2 dozen

 

 

 

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