Cowboy Cookies

If you want to make an enormous amount of cookies, this is your recipe!  They are chewy and

yummy. 

 

2 squares butter

2 squares margarine

2 cups brown sugar

2 cups white sugar

4 eggs

4 cups flour

1 t. baking powder

2 t. baking soda

1 t. salt

4 cups old fashioned oats – not instant

2 t. vanilla

2 cups chocolate chips

1 cup chopped nuts

 

Cream butter, margarine, and sugars together.  Add eggs.  Add flour, baking powder, soda and salt one cup at a time.  Add rolled oats and vanilla.  Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.  Roll into large walnut-sized balls and place on cookie sheet.   Or, use a large cookie scoop.  They freeze well and taste great when you pull them out of the freezer.

 

Bake at 350 for 10-12 min.   Makes over 6 dozen

 

A great cookie recipe from Heather.

 

Note:  I have found that oatmeal cookies are chewier and more moist when you use old fashioned oats.  Quick oats seem to absorb the moisture and make the cookies a little bit dry.  There are a few exceptions to that and I will always note that when I post a recipe.