Katie is thankful for…
Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Yes, very thankful for chocolate chip cookies.
And thankful for this face:
I can’t even.
And for chocolate chip cookies a few more times.
Especially homemade chocolate chip cowboy cookies, eaten straight out of the oven, that are filled with crushed salted pretzel pieces, chewy rolled oats, and extra gooey chocolate chips.
Today, you get TWO chocolate chip cookie recipes!
My first batch of cowboy cookies calls for maple syrup instead of any granulated sugar, and I really loved the raw cookie dough. In fact, I could not stop eating it!
But I wasn’t thrilled with the texture of the healthy cookies once baked, and therefore I deemed them a no-bake recipe and tried again, this time adapting a recipe I already knew was a winner: my Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies.
The second version is posted below, and the maple syrup version can be found on a separate page to avoid confusion.
Now you can be thankful for chocolate chip cookies, too!
Chocolate Chip Cowboy Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cowboy Cookies
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup plus 1/2 cup oat flour (To make oat flour, you can simply grind up rolled oats in a food processor)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup brown sugar or coconut sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar of choice or xylitol
- 1/4 cup thinly-crushed pretzels
- 2 tbsp shredded coconut OR rolled oats
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil or melted coconut oil
- 2-5 tbsp milk of choice, only as needed
Instructions
Cowboy Cookies Recipe: Preheat your oven to 380 degrees and grease a cookie tray. In a large bowl, combine first 8 ingredients and mix very well. Add wet ingredients, and form into one big ball. Now make little balls from the big one. For softer cookies, refrigerate or freeze the dough until cold (for crispy cookies, just bake right away). You can also freeze the dough balls for up to a month before baking. For soft cookies, bake 7 minutes, then remove from oven when they still look quite undercooked. It’s important to let the cookies cool at least 10 minutes before touching them, as they’ll firm up considerably while cooling. (For crispier cookies, bake until they are only slightly undercooked.) For soft and chewy cookies, store in a lidded plastic container. For crispy cookies, store in a lidded glass container for up to 4 days.
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Awww you and your sister look so much alike. Glad you had a great Thanksgiving!
Your puppy is so cute! 🙂 The cookies look chunky and delicious, can’t wait to try them!
I’m thankful for chocolate chip cookies too. Nothing beats the smell of them while they are in the oven cooking! Plus, it’s a total comfort food / childhood reminder. 🙂
OMG! Yours and your sister’s boots! Where did you guys get them!
Not sure about her boots… Mine were on sale a few months ago at DSW. The company is called Not Rated.
you seemed to be doing okay for a while, but now it looks like you are too skinny again.
sad. 🙁
It’s exactly what i was thinking!
I hope everything is ok, Katie.
Btw, your sister looks gorgeous!
She actually looks the same to me. I never really thought she gained much weight. Anyhow, Katie, I would have liked to see a picture of the “no bake” cowboy cookies.e
S and Joa,
Please don’t make assumptions about a person on the internet based on a photo. 🙁 I’m around the same weight I’ve been for the past year.
Eribis,
Fantastic suggestion! I do have a few unedited iphone photos, so I’ll go ahead and add one to the post now.
Whether or not Katie is thinner is none of anyone’s business but her own. And I found Joa’s comment to be very passive aggressive. “Katie, you are too thin, but your sister looks gorgeous”? Really? 😕
Sorry but no way you can tell me you are the same weight as here https://lett-trim.today/2014/09/05/running-story-part-two/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I actually think she looks the same.
Just ignore the haters. You are model gorgeous and look so much like Anna Kendrick!
If you have a comment, at least have the courage to do it with an identity. It’s too easy to criticize when no one knows who you are.
Good grief. She looks exactly the same. Bare legs truncated by shorts and flat flip-flop shoes vs tall boots and black (slimming) leggings! Plus also? If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Go look after your own health and let Katie look after hers.
I have to say when I saw this pic I thought, “wow killer curves!” You both are beautiful. You look happy! S, you need to seriously get a life and a name for that matter!!!
Just wanted to pop in and say that even a couple years ago when I ate a 12 in ch frozen pizza at least once a week, 8 Chips Ahoy cookies a day, and went to town on the peanut butter on my sammiches, I was still NEVER over 105 pounds. Some people just have bodies that will never be thick.
My best friend is the same way! She can eat whatever she wants and still be thinner than I am. She gets the anorexic accusations too and it sucks.
I eat like crazy and weigh 105 pounds. Look and feel great 😀 You’re GORGEOUS Katie!
Seriously? Methinks someone is jealous! I would love to be as thin as Katie! But at the age of 60, it ain’t happening. But that’s no reason to go all sour-grapes about it. I can look at how lovely Katie is, and be truly happy for her. I had my day in the sun, and now it’s someone else’s turn. You’re absolutely gorgeous, Katie! Keep on doing whatever it is you’re doing, and ignore the haters. We all know it’s just the green-eyed monster talking.
Katie, I love you and your recipes. I have a question though about the pretzels. What does “thinly crushed” mean?
You want crumbs. Not quite as fine as flour (although that would also work), but not big pieces. Try for the size of mini chocolate chips or just a tiny bit bigger.
Thank you!!
Katie, I love how your size refence to explain how crushed the pretzels should be was compared to the size of chocolate chips. XD That is too perfect!
those look so good!!!! could you take out the pretzels and maybe replace it with some whole oats?
I’d recommend just using this recipe instead: https://lett-trim.today/2012/05/27/the-best-healthy-chocolate-chip-cookies/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Not sure I’ve ever commented before, but I had to leave a comment today because I just tried these cookies, version 2 with the regular sugar, and they are SO GOOD!
Like I wouldn’t believe there was whole grain flour in there if I hadn’t been the one who made them. This is my new favorite recipe of yours.
Everyone go make these cookies NOW! You will not be sorry!
This looks like another winner to try. Your recipes never disappoint and your puppy is just too cute!
I cannot believe your sister would turn these fine cowboys down, they look a treat 😀 Anything pretzel and I’m in 😀 x