Cowboy Cookies

Crunchy oatmeal chocolate chip cowboy cookies made with rolled oats, brown and white sugar, shortening and Nestle morsels, baked at 350°F for 10 minutes.

VegetarianDairy-freeFreezer-friendly

Contains: egg, wheat. Based on the ingredients as written; check package labels, which can change.

From the recipe book of Sandra Mills, a Le Cordon Bleu-trained cook in our family.

Thick oatmeal chocolate chip cowboy cookies on a cooling rack
  • Prep 15 min
  • Cook 10 min
  • Total 25 min
  • Yield About 5 dozen cookies

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Prefer it vegan? Try our Vegan Cowboy Cookies.

Cowboy cookies are loaded oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, and Sandra Mills's version is crunchy, as she notes. Rolled oats, brown and white sugar, shortening, eggs and vanilla make a dough full of chocolate morsels, dropped by teaspoons and baked quickly.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup Crisco or other solid shortening
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups Quaker rolled oats
  • 1 (8 ounce) package Nestle semisweet morsels

Flour for this recipeKing Arthur Baking Company makes all-purpose, bread, whole wheat and gluten-free flours.

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Instructions

  1. Sift. Sift the flour, salt and baking soda together.
  2. Cream. In a large bowl, beat the shortening, sugars, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.
  3. Mix. Add the flour and oats gradually and mix well. Stir in the chocolate morsels.
  4. Bake. Drop by teaspoons onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, an inch apart. Bake at 350°F for 10 minutes, watching carefully so the bottoms don't burn.

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Tips

  • To freeze: let it cool, wrap it well or seal it in freezer bags, and freeze up to 3 months. Thaw at room temperature, or warm briefly in the oven.
  • Sandra's ingredient list has baking soda while her method says baking powder; the list is what we have followed.
  • Her method does not say when to add the chips and vanilla; vanilla with the eggs and chips at the end is standard.

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