I saw a recipe for cowboy cookies on a test kitchen episode and I couldn’t help but think they looked really nice. Not quite a kitchen sink cookie recipe they mixed a traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe with sweetened shredded coconut, oats, and toasted pecans. When it came time to actually make the recipe I chose to use the recipe from the Mel and Boys kitchen blog, since I hadn’t saved the test kitchen episode and the recipe seems to be the same.
I did have to make a few changes when it came to making the cookies, the biggest one being that I ended up only doing a half recipe. Most of the ingredients were easy to split, all except for the egg (the recipe called for three eggs so I ended up doing two rather than trying for one and a half). While I would love to say I was being health conscious and thinking of how many cookies I should have in the house, the truth of the matter is that when I was measuring out the chocolate chips I realized I only had 1 and ½ cups instead of the three the recipe asked for, so I just decided to chop everything in half. Not that it was a bad thing, even only a half recipe made a lot of dough. Going off what I remembered of the test kitchen I tried to make the cookies larger than I would your typical chocolate chip drop cookie – using twice as much dough per cookie. And they definitely got large. I think I ended up making them too large, based on how long it took to cook. The first batch I pulled out still looked pretty raw in the middle and I ended up putting them back in the oven until the doughy look to mostly be done. The episode I watched said that the cookies should still look a little doughy when removed from the oven and then finish cooking on the cookie sheet while they cooled.
While they were a little too large they were sooooo good. Gooey in the middle, crispy on the edges, and with a nice texture from the combination of oats, shredded coconut and buttery dough. I could have eaten a dozen of them myself, especially with a nice cold cup of milk? Divine. They’re just as good cold and I’m going to be putting myself on a strict “1 cookie a day” policy if only to keep from eating a whole dozen in one sitting myself.
