Former First Lady Laura Bush’s well-known recipe for cowboy cookies with a delicious twist: salted cereal brittle! These oatmeal cookies are moreover stuffed with cinnamon, chocolate chips and coconut. Saddle as much as your new favorite cookie!
There are a handful of points I’ve devoted to since my present half-move to Texas: loving my boyfriend Will (which suggests quite a few adventures on bikes), perfecting my kolache recipe (nonetheless inside the works, the dough ought to be that of a literal pillow), apparently relearning how one can drive a automotive (on account of DANG Houston, y’all are wild) and making my very personal mannequin of a Cowboy Cookies.
The cowboy cookies come simple. They’re primarily a mash up of oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip cookies, with added sweetened coconut for chew and pecans (puh-cahns). They seem like a timeless primary though timeless most truly has a timestamp with Laura Bush inside the First Lady bake-off circa 2000. Can you take into consideration a gift presidential election that features a bake-off? Let’s not reply that.
A present chat with my good good friend Deb about her latest cookbook Smitten Kitchen Keepers, by way of which she has the brilliance and audacity every to fold do-it-yourself salted walnut brittle into her chocolate chip cookies. It appeared solely changing into to smash my new found dedication to cowboy cookies into my new found brittle inspiration and this cookie was born. Chewy and sweet with a contact of spice, a bitter chunk from darkish chocolate and a salty, crunchy brittle with pecans and corn flakes. These cookies are stacked… like Texas’ greatest cowboys, amen.
Listed under are the weather you’ll must make these cowboy cookies:
• all-purpose flour
• baking soda, flooring cinnamon, kosher salt
• unsalted butter
• quick cooking oats
• brown sugar and granulated sugar
• large eggs
• vanilla extract
• chocolate chips or chocolate chunks
• Cornflake cereal
• chopped pecans
• shredded coconut
• handheld electrical mixer with a giant mixing bowl or in a stand mixer
• dried fruit; raisins or dried cranberries
First, let’s make the brittle. It needs to relax and set inside the freezer whereas we make the cookie dough. Making brittle can actually really feel a bit intimidating nonetheless let me physique it for you this way: we’re merely melting plain ol’ granulated sugar to scorching and brown.
Place a small saucepan of sugar over medium heat. I desire to swirl the pan as a result of the sugar begins to melt sooner than stirring. In the end I stir the mixture so the sugar is evenly melted and browned nonetheless overstirring may trigger lumps. Really, most lumps can be labored out by smashing and stirring them out over the heat. Don’t stress it…. however as well as, melted sugar is screamin’ scorching so don’t model it or get it in your pores and pores and skin until it’s cool.
When the sugar is pleasingly browned, stir in nuts and Cornflakes.
Quickly spoon the golden brown, loaded brittle to a little bit of greased parchment paper on a small sheet pan. When you occur to don’t get the brittle great skinny (it cools shortly) – that’s optimistic! It’ll merely take a bit further smash when it’s time to interrupt it up.
Allow the brittle to set inside the freezer for quarter-hour or, if home doesn’t allow, inside the fridge for half-hour.
Whereas the brittle models, make the cookie dough. In a giant bowl, whisk collectively the dry parts until evenly combined.
Can you utilize old fashioned oats for these cowboy cookies?
You caaaaan, however it’s not my need for this cookie. Quick oats are a rather a lot finer texture than old fashioned oats. If using old fashioned oats, will create a further dense and tall cookie.
Set the dry parts aside and cream collectively butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Cream on low tempo until fluffy sooner than together with the eggs and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Stir the flour mixture into the creamed butter mixture until merely barely combined. Add chocolate gadgets and sweetened coconut to your coronary coronary heart’s content material materials.
Break up the hardened brittle with the cope with end of a spatula or use a giant knife to fastidiously chop it into small chunks. Bathe your entire bits and crumbles into the cookie dough.
Stir the brittle crumble as most interesting it’s possible you’ll to evenly combine, then scrape the cookie dough onto a little bit of plastic wrap to chill out inside the fridge sooner than baking.
Scooping the cookie dough with a small cookie scoop makes for basically essentially the most evenly spherical cookies. Portion on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake inside the larger rack of the oven.
I like sprinkling sea salt on excessive of the cookies sooner than baking on account of that salty bit compliments the sweet brittle so properly!
Check out this texture! The chewiness of the shredded coconut is matched by the toffee crunch of the brittle. This cowboy cookie recipe is a bit of bit additional nonetheless an absolute delight.
What do you suppose? Are you down for brittle in your cookies?
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Former first woman Laura Bush’s well-known recipe for cowboy cookies with a delicious twist: salted cereal brittle! These oatmeal cookies are moreover stacked cinnamon, chocolate chips and coconut. Meet your new favorite cookie!
For the Brittle:
For the Dough:
Line two baking sheets, one small baking sheet and one different larger baking sheet, with parchment paper. Spray the small pan very frivolously with nonstick cooking spray. Set every pans aside.
First we’ll make cereal brittle. Pour sugar proper right into a medium skillet and place over medium-high heat. Cook dinner dinner, with out stirring, until the sugar begins to liquify, about 4 minutes. Swirl the pan, stirring sparingly, until your entire sugar melts proper right into a caramel. Proceed to organize dinner the sugar until it is a deep brown (merely regarding the shade of copper). Take away from the heat and shortly stir inside the cereal and chopped pecans.
Fastidiously and shortly pour the latest brittle onto the small prepared pan. Quickly use a spatula to unfold it flat though don’t worry in case you may’t get it as flat as you’d like sooner than it cools. We’ll break up the brittle after it cools totally it would not matter what. Place the brittle inside the freezer for quarter-hour or fridge for about half-hour. Now let’s make the cookie dough!
In a medium bowl whisk collectively flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and oats. Put apart.
In a giant bowl with electrical hand beaters or inside the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars until pale and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add eggs, individually, beating for 1 minute between each addition. Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl. Beat inside the vanilla extract on low tempo.
Add the dry parts and beat on low tempo until nearly completely combined. Go away quite a lot of flour streaks inside the dough and add chocolate chips and coconut flakes.
Take away the brittle from it’s cooling place and use a kitchen mallet or the underside of a small pan to interrupt the bite-size chunks. Stir into the batter.
Scoop the dough into wax paper or plastic wrap, a thick disk is okay, and refrigerate the dough for a minimum of 1 hour to allow the moisture to distribute by means of the dry parts and the butter to harden barely. Alternately, it’s possible you’ll portion the dough into 2 tablespoon cookie dough balls and refrigerate the balls on a parchment lined baking sheet. The dough will be saved inside the fridge for as a lot as 4 days or properly wrapped inside the freezer for 1 month.
Thirty minutes sooner than baking, place a rack inside the larger third of the oven and preheat oven to 350°F. Place 2 tablespoon dough balls on a parchment lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Press quite a lot of chocolate chips into each dough ball, and use the heel of your hand to softly press the dough proper right into a thick disk and sprinkle with sea salt in case you’re feeling it. Bake for 11-13 minutes until golden throughout the sides. Take away from the oven and allow to rest on a baking sheet for 10 minutes to set sooner than eradicating to a wire rack to relax totally. You’ll actually eat one as shortly as they’re cool adequate to cope with. Retailer any cookies you don’t snack on or share in an airtight container at room temperature for as long as they remaining. They’re most interesting inside 5 days or so.
