Cowboy Cookies

I used to make these cookies when the kids were young, and Elizabeth mentioned them to her husband who said, "What are Cowboy Cookies??" So, in the interest of son-in-law education and appeasement, I made them. Here is the recipe!


1 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

2 cups flour (can mix 1/2 white with 1/2 whole grain)

1 tsp. soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. baking powder

2 cups rolled oats

6 oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips (or raisins if you prefer)

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Cream sugars, butter, eggs and vanilla until fluffy. Sift dry ingredients and stir in. Add oatmeal, chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by a teaspoonful on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Makes 8-9 dozen cookies.

(Note: for RBTI, use Kosher salt, raisins and no nuts.)

Nut Butter Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Nut Butter Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
(no wheat or sugar)

Beat two eggs in bottom of mixing bowl. Beat in 1/2 cup honey, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/4 cup milk (1/2 and 1/2, almond, hemp, etc.) and 1 cup fresh ground nut butter (this time I mixed cashew and almond. Mmm.) Stir into egg/honey mixture 1 -1/4 cups almond meal, hazelnut meal, or other nut flour.

Cut up 3.5 oz of 70% dark chocolate into approx.1/4 inch chips (or 1/2 bag dark chocolate chips), Stir into mixture.

In blender, blend three cups of oats into flour. Sift two cups of this flour with one tsp baking soda and 1/4 tsp salt. Stir into mixture until mixture can keep it's shape (not runny). Add more oat flour if you need to.

Drop rounded teaspoonfuls (scoop works great) onto buttered cookie sheet and flatten slightly with moist fingertips. Bake 10-12 minutes at 350. Makes about 4 dozen.