![]() ![]() Salt – Just half a teaspoon enhances the flavor of the other ingredients by a lot!.Otherwise, throw it out! Do the same with the baking soda, but with vinegar. To check, drop a teaspoon of baking powder and in warm water. Be sure both are still potent, or else, your cookies will be flat. Baking Powder and Baking Soda – The leavening agents that will make your cookies rise.All-Purpose Flour – It forms the base of the cake.Thanks to these ingredients, these cookies are fully loaded with flavor! They take 15 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to bake, which is perfect for those midnight cravings! Cowboy Cookie Ingredients Oh, my! The combination of white and brown sugars, butter, oatmeal, and chocolate chips is to die for! The cowboy cookie is the embodiment of the perfect cookie.įor one, it has all the wonderful textures a cookie should have – lightly crisp on the outside, and super soft, tender, and chewy on the inside.Īnd then there’s the flavor. Get your western boots ready because today, you’re making cowboy cookies! Cowboy Cookies Obviously, my preference is the 2oz cookie which give you a generous Texas sized portion.Oh, and they’re packed with oatmeal, too! I know, I know… there are some oatmeal haters out there.īut believe me, it only takes one bite of these cookies to change their minds. Many times I make the dough in advance and freeze the portioned balls for baking later. Allow the cookies to cool before storingĪlso, you can elect to make large or small Cowboy Cookies by either portioning the dough into 2oz cookies (56g) or 1oz cookies (28g). Simply reduce the raisins to 1/2 cup and increase the chocolate chips to 1 full cup, or eliminate the raisins altogether and use 1 1/2 cups of chocolate chips. This recipe calls for only a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips but you can definitely add more by cutting back on the raisins. Golden raisins, dried currants, dried cherries, dried blueberries or dried cranberries would make great substitutions for plain old raisins. Not everyone loves raisins in their cookies, but I do, so I added a full cup. Big cookies are always better More Chocolate Chips Or Raisins? Hand mixing denser ingredients may require a little muscle, but it only takes a minute and is worth the improved texture of your cookie. Of course, you could use a stand mixer to mix your cookie dough, but the powerful motors in stand mixers can crunch up your corn flakes into small pieces. As the recipe progresses, I switch to mixing with a spoon to save any strain on my poor little hand mixer. Using an electric hand mixer as the additional ingredients (chocolate chips, raisins, nuts) become more dense can harm the motor of your mixer. A little bit of everything… Hand Mix for Better Texture ![]() I especially love crunch of the corn flakes. The ingredients for Cowboy Cookies include every delicious cookie ingredient I know – dried fruit, nuts, chocolate and crispy corn flakes. Cowboy Cookies shoot from the hip in a way that a plain ol’ chocolate chip or brownie can’t match. I’d like to believe Cowboy Cookies are a tribute to the nostalgic legend of the cowboy – rustic and bold with a little bit of everything good. Cowboys never took butter or chocolate chips with them as they drove cattle down the dusty trails. Why are they called Cowboy Cookies? No one really knows. Cowboy Cookies are a classic Southern cookie that are as mysterious as they are delicious.
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