First, let me walk you through the steps. Then, the recipe!
First thing to add is rolled oats. These cookies are healthy! Kinda.
Add flour and sugar.
Add chocolate chips. The trick here is to add a normal amount of chips, and then add some more.
Next comes brown sugar.
And then, the pièce de resistance, coconut. Find just regular dried coconut, not sweetened flakes. Other dry ingredients include baking soda and salt.
Melt one stick of unsalted butter.
Beat together 1 egg and some vanilla.
Add wet ingredients to dry. The key here is persistence over doubt. IT WILL SEEM that the egg and butter are not enough to moisten all of the other ingredients. Put these concerns aside. Mix things together by hand with confidence and character. They WILL start to stick together, even just a tiny bit. That is enough.
Squeeze walnut-sized balls of batter together and place on parchment-covered baking sheet. Bits will fall off—that's OK. Press them back in to random cookie balls.
Because these cookies are so ingredient heavy they will not really spread out by themselves. They will need a little "spank" with a metal turner/spatula halfway through baking. Open the oven, and with your favorite tool, gently push down on each cookie to make it flatter.
Cool finished cookies a bit.
Then transfer to rack for further cooling.
Here's the formal recipe:
1 1/4 c. oatmeal (rolled oats)
1 c. flour
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. flake coconut
1 c. chocolate chips
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1 stick butter, melted (1/2 c)
1 t. vanilla
1 egg
- Preheat oven to 325˚ F
- Combine dry ingredients.
- Mix in butter, vanilla, egg
- Drop on parchment-covered cookie sheet
- Bale 7 minutes, then "spank" with metal turner
- Bake 5 more minutes.
- Let cool slightly, then move to rack to cool
Makes about 35 cookies.
Enjoy! Merry Merry!
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