Cowboy Cookies with Video – And Professional-Ideas

I hit the jackpot with this chewy, buttery, Loaded Cowboy Cookies Recipe! Scrumptious oats, chocolate, coconut, and pecans in each chunk!

Whether or not you name these Cowboy Cookies or Ranger Cookies, this Oatmeal Cookies Recipe is an amped-up, out-of-this-world cookie you need to make.

Why You Should Make

The primary-ever cowboy cookies I baked had been an enormous disappointment. The recipe referred to as for Rice Krispies which misplaced their crispness inside hours. It took me over a decade to get better from that fiasco and to make one other batch. It was time to offer these one other shot!

• The inspiration for this recipe for these simple cowboy cookies within the New York Instances, attributed to Laura Bush circa 2000. They had been the winner of the Household Circle’s presidential candidates’ wives cookie contest the place the Democrat vs Republican competitors was moved to the kitchen. I can see why this scrumptious, chewy oatmeal cookies recipe gained!
• This recipe makes a HUGE batch and so they freeze superbly. You’ll have a stash of ready-to-go snacks and dessert in your freezer.
• These cookies are loaded with chocolate chips, nuts, coconut, and oatmeal. You may simply tweak the recipe to your palate, swapping out completely different chocolate chips or nuts, or leaving out the coconut. They’re very versatile.

Ingredient Notes

• Kitchen Staples – Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, Sugar, Brown Sugar
• Eggs, Butter – Have at room temperature for simpler incorporation.
• Baking Powder – In contrast to baking soda, baking powder often expires earlier than you utilize it up. Test the expiration date earlier than utilizing. If you happen to’d like to make sure, place a spoonful right into a bowl or cup crammed with very popular water. In case your baking powder is lively, it would bubble vigorously. If it doesn’t, change earlier than making the dough.
• Chocolate Chips – I exploit Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate. Be at liberty to make use of bittersweet and even milk chocolate chips.
• Vanilla Extract – Use actual vanilla extract, by no means artificially flavored.
• Oatmeal – Use old style rolled oats, not fast oats.
• Coconut – Use sweetened, angel flake coconut.
• Pecans – For the perfect taste, toast your nuts earlier than utilizing to convey out their important oils. This may be achieved in a skillet or on a sheet pan within the oven at 350° for 6-8 minutes.

Professional Ideas

As regular, I needed to tweak this recipe for loaded cowboy cookies a bit. I eradicated the cinnamon and decreased the quantity of pecans. After all, Invoice would have liked these cookies sans oatmeal, coconut, and pecans. Yeah, these can be plain ol’ chocolate chip cookies! Some issues by no means change.

• Get out your butter and eggs about 60 minutes earlier than you begin making your cookie dough so they arrive to room temperature. This ensures the dough will combine correctly.
• Whisking collectively your dry substances earlier than you combine them into the dough helps stop clumps of baking soda, baking powder, or an excessive amount of salt in anybody cookie.

• I like utilizing my paddle attachment if utilizing a mixer to make cookies. This prevents the dough from aerating which might occur whenever you beat with a whisk attachment. If you happen to use a hand mixer, simply watch out to not overbeat.
• The opposite choice is to combine by hand with a wood spoon.

• These loaded cowboy cookies had been every made with 1/4 cup of cookie dough! They’re BIG cookies. Go forward and use a rounded tablespoon filled with dough and bake for 10-12 minutes for smaller cookies.
• I discussed all my tweaks above, however be happy so as to add again in 1 tablespoon of cinnamon and an additional 1/2 cup of pecans, or nut of your option to this oatmeal cookies recipe.
• You possibly can additionally use an alternate chocolate chip like bittersweet, white chocolate, or butterscotch. Or how about changing among the chocolate with toffee bits?

• If you need completely spherical cookies, roll the dough between your two palms to type balls.
• Then, once they come out of the oven, faucet them into excellent circles whereas they’re nonetheless sizzling utilizing a spatula. It really works like a allure.

The way to Make a Smaller Batch

PRO-Tip: this recipe makes an enormous quantity of dough, and for those who make smaller cookies you should have heaps and plenty! The measurements can simply be divided into thirds and you can too bake up extra petite cookies (I like to recommend a rounded tablespoon as a substitute of the 1/4 cup of dough referred to as for within the recipe for those who choose a smaller model. Simply lower the baking time.).

PRO-Tip: If you happen to resolve to make 1/3 of the recipe, listed below are the quantities for the smaller batch:

•  1 cup flour
•  1 teaspoon baking powder (Test the expiration date.)
•  1 teaspoon baking soda
•  1/8+ teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
•  1/2 cup sugar
•  1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
•  1 teaspoon vanilla
•  1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
•  1 cup old style oatmeal
•  2/3 cup angel flake coconut
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Regularly Requested Questions 

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