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Chocolate Cowboy Cookies
"These are quick and easy; my cowboy devours them!!"
photo by Jonathan Melendez
- Ready In:
- 27mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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30-36 cookies
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup flour
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup margarine or 1/2 cup shortening
- 1⁄2 cup white sugar
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1⁄2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
directions
- Sift together dry ingredients; set aside.
- Blend together margarine (or shortening) and sugars.
- Add egg & beat until light & fluffy then stir in vanilla.
- Combine with dry ingredients & mix well.
- Add remaining ingredients& mix well.
- Drop by teaspoon onto greased or parchment-lined cookie sheets and bake in preheated 350°F oven for 12 minutes.
- Allow a few minutes longer if you prefer crisp cookies.
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Reviews
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Chocolateee Good! Yes they are quick and easy. They stay nice and full don`t flatten out like some cookies do. You can`t even tell thay are made with oatmeal. -
This wonderful cookie makes you rub your tummy and say, "ahhhhhhh". We loved the combination of chocolate chips, oatmeal and nuts (I used walnuts). This is a real crowd pleaser and I will make over and over again. Thank you so much, CountryLady, for sharing this. -
Can't believe I haven't reviewed these yet, I've been making them for years! These are the best chocolate chips ever, and I don't say that lightly. I always make a double batch, and they get raves when I take them to someone's home.<br/><br/>I've made them with only brown sugar when I ran out of white sugar, but that makes them slightly too molassesy (although they're still great!) I use butter, always, and the texture and taste is perfect.<br/><br/>Thank you!! -
These were really good. Very fudgey chocolatey but not dense.. The mix was very dry and I had to read back over everything to make sure I'd followed it correctly... I did.. it's just dry. I loved the oatmeal in them.. and think I'll try them without the chocolate chips next time (I hear the gasps... LOL) -
My kids devoured these too within minutes. The only mistake I made was not doubling the recipe when I made it. Absolutely delicious!!
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Tweaks
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I added coconut and omitted the nuts. -
These were really good, quick to put together and tasty too. I creamed the sugars and butter along with the egg in the food processor. Next, I added the dry ingredients and stirred the dark chocolate chips in by hand (about 3/4 c.); did not add nuts. I then placed everything in the fridge for about an hour. I baked them in a well preheated oven for about 11 minutes on a Silpat and they were perfectly soft inside and crisp on the outside. I would like to experiment next time and add some unsweetened shaved coconut and replace half of the butter with coconut oil. I'm thinking a Mounds cookie here :) Thanks for sharing, this one is a keeper!
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These were excellent. I cut down to a 1/4 cup chocolate chips, added nuts and used 3/4 cup butter instead of margarine. Next time I would add a few teaspoons coconut. I plan to make these again. -
I can't believe I haven't reviewed these yet. I've been making these cookies for a few years now. I like trying new recipes, but this is one I keep coming back to when I want a reliably delicious cookie that everyone will like. I usually use old-fashioned oats and like to replace some of the nuts (I use walnuts) with dried cranberries. -
This is an excellent recipe. I thought that the cocoa and chocolate chips might be too much chocolate but the chocolate flavor was not overwhelming at all. I like that this recipe does not use a lot of any one thing. I had just enough oats, nuts and margarine on hand! I notice that some of the other cowboy cookie recipes added coconut. I may add that to some of the batch next time but the recipe is perfect as is. I'm editing my comment because I've used this recipe a number of times since posting this. I tried this tonight substituting whole wheat flour for regular flour, Soy Garden Buttery Spread instead of margarine, walnuts and Hershey's dark chocolate chips. I didn't have quick cooking oats. I used old fashioned oats and ran them through the blender. I dropped the dough by tablespoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet and baked for 10 minutes which made for nice soft cookies.
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