Cowchip Cookie Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Beat butter, margarine, salt, sugars and vanilla together until blended. Add eggs and beat until smooth and fluffy.
• 2. In a very large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix in all the remaining ingredients (oats, cornflakes, nuts, coconut and the chocolate chips).
• 3. Then fold in sugar, butter, egg mixture until blended.
• 4. Refrigerate the dough for about 3 hours. The cookies will hold their shape better if the dough is chilled.
• 5. Using an ice-cream scoop to measure, drop the cookies onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees 12-15 minutes. Cool on wax paper or wire rack. * Store in an airtight container between sheets of wax paper.

Steps:

• Note: This recipe does not use flour. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars. Add eggs, vanilla and salt; mix well. Mix in peanut butter. Place remaining ingredients in a 5-qt. bowl. Stir in creamed mixture. Shape into 3/4-in. balls and place on greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and line a plate with wax paper.
• For the nuts: Melt the butter in a skillet and add the brown sugar and a pinch salt. Cook until the butter starts to bubble, about 3 minutes, then add the almonds and peanuts and stir to coat the nuts completely. Sprinkle over the cinnamon and stir until incorporated. Transfer to the lined plate and set aside to cool.
• For the dough: Cream together the granulated sugar and butter in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, scraping the sides once, until fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition. Mix in the vanilla.
• Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt, then add in batches to the mixer, mixing until just combined after each addition. Gently stir in the chocolate chips, dried cranberries and reserved cooled nuts.
• Using a 1/3-cup scoop, add portions of the dough to the lined baking sheets, spacing them about 3 inches apart.
• Bake until the middles of the cookies are set, about 20 minutes. They will be fragile at this stage, so let them cool for 10 minutes, then move them to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• beat butter and sugars together until blended.
• Add eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth.
• In separate bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; gradually add to sugar mixture and stir well.
• Sir in remaining ingredients.
• Drop cookies with a 1/4 cup measuring cup onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, 6 to a sheet.
• Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.
• Cool on wire rack.