Texas Cookies & Texas Cowboy Cookies

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Texas Cookies

1 Cup Flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 cups pecans or walnuts
Chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Line a small jelly roll pan with foil and butter.

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
Cream together the butter and sugar and beat in the eggs, one at a time. Add the vanilla. Add the flour mixture. Mix well.

Spread the mixture evenly in the pan. Sprinkle with nuts and chocolate chips. Bake for about 20 minutes or until cookies are almost set. Do Not Over Bake.

Remove from oven and let cool. Slide cookies and foil out of pan on to cutting board. Cut into squares.


Texas Cowboy Cookies

3 cupsAll-purpose flour
1 tablespoonBaking Powder
1 tablespoonBaking soda
1 tablespoonGround cinnamon
1 teaspoonSalt
1 1/2 cupsbutter; at room temperature
1 1/2 cupsGranulated sugar
1 1/2 cupsbrown sugar; packed light
3 EGGS
1 tablespoonVanilla
3 cupsSemisweet chocolate chips
3 cupsold-fashioned rolled oats
2 cupssweetened flake coconut
2 cupsPecans; chopped

Heat oven to 350 F.

Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in bowl. Beat butter on medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute. Gradually beat in sugars; beat to combine, 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each. Beat in vanilla. Stir in flour mixture until just combined. Add chocolate chips, oats, coconut and pecans.

For each cookie, drop 1/4 cup dough onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing 3 inches apart. Bake in 350 F oven 15 to 20 minutes, until edges are lightly browned; rotate sheets halfway through. Remove cookies from rack to cool.

These make 24 "Texas-sized" or 36 "Yankee-sized" cookies.