Cowboy Cookies {Recipe}

These cookies have just about every yummy thing possible in them, chocolate chips, oats, coconut, and pecans.  They may not win any beauty contests, but they are a delicious, homey treat.

Cowboy Cookies

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup light brown sugar (packed)

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups chocolate chips

2 cups old fashioned rolled oats

1 1/4 cups sweetened flake coconut

1 1/4 cups chopped pecans

Directions~

1.  Preheat oven to 350*F

2.  Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a bowl and set aside.

3.  In a mixing bowl, beat butter until smooth and creamy (about 1 minute)

4.  Gradually beat in the sugars until fully combined.

5.  Add the eggs, one at a time.  Add vanilla.

6.  Stir in flour mixture until just combined.

7.  Combine chocolate chips, oats, coconut and pecans in a large bowl, then add that mixture to your dough.

8.  Using a large cookie scoop, place large balls of dough on an ungreased cookie sheet.

9.  Bake 9-11 minutes.

10.  Transfer cookies to a rack to cool.

Recipe Source-  Final recipe by Glorious Treats, adapted from Laura Bush (as pubished in Presidential Cookies)