Best-Ever Cookie Recipe

In our house, these cookies don’t last long enough to make it overnight in the cookie jar.

I put them in and by the next morning, the jar is empty.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Cup Butter
• 1/2 Cup Margerine or Crisco or butter substitute (vegetable oil works as well)
• 1 1/2 Cups Sugar
• 2 Tbps molasses
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups rolled oats, ground to flour in the blender
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 12-16 oz chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut (optional but yummy)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Cream butter and sugar. Add molasses, eggs, and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients then add to creamed mixture. Add chocolate chips and coconut.

Bake 10-12 minutes.

Makes 4-5 dozen.

Note:

I make about 18 cookies and then store the rest of the batter covered in the refrigerator. Then I can pull the mixture out whenever the kids want cookies for dessert and make a pan or two. I have found the batter lasts in the fridge for up to a week or so with no problems.

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