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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Actually, I think your regular healthy chocolate-chip cookies have a pretzel undertone, which makes them incredibly addictive! But I’ll have to give these “official” pretzel cookies a shot, too 🙂
Also, I just wanted to add that I’ve been making your double chocolate-chip brownie cookies for a while, and I never seem to get any because everyone eats them all before I can grab more than one 🙁 I add a few things, like instant decaf coffee, cinnamon, and a little orange zest, and use half whole-wheat and half all-purpose flour. I recently brought them to a potluck event (a double recipe) and they were ALL GONE within a few minutes — literally! (I only got one cookie…) I think they were slightly underbaked, so they were really fudgy, and people are still giving me compliments and telling me how they can’t stop thinking about the cookies, weeks later! I direct them to your recipe 🙂
This made my morning 🙂
yum! nothing like chocolate chip cookies 🙂
I actually keep ZERO granulated sugar in my apartment; however I do have agave, so no-bake it is! And since I’m GF, I also have ZERO pretzels. But, I do have ancient grains crackers that I’m curious to crush up and throw in there as a sub. We’ll see how my creepy substitutions fare this cookie…..
Snyders has some really good gluten free pretzels as well as Glutino. Both are good options. I’m gluten and dairy free and although I am not a huge fan of pretzels in general (I think they’re really dry) I use them in replace of breadcrumbs in meatloaf or baked chicken fingers and things like that. Wasn’t sure if you knew about them or if you just didn’t have any in your apartment : ) HAPPY BAKING!
A couple years ago when I first went GF, my momma bought me the Snyder’s pretzels and they tasted EXACTLY like the real deal! And then this summer when I was trying to gain weight, I would have a plateful of Glutino’s pretzels every morning for a snack, which were also pretty good. I’m just not a pretzel/chip fan, and I live alone (AND on an extremely tight college budget) so I can’t really afford to buy pretzels when I’ll only use them for one recipe. Still though, thanks for the response! Using them as a breadcrumb replacement sounds salty and DELICIOUS!
Hopefully I’ll be able to make and bake these before eating all the dough!
You and your sister are adorable! Happy belated Thanksgiving, great recipe 🙂
These look awesome. I just want to check about the first ingredient: it says 2/3 cup plus 1/2 cup oat flour. I get the oat flour part, but 2/3 cup of what?; regular flour or regular oats?
I think it means 2/3 and 1/2 cup each of oat flour… must be it ended up an unusual measurement so it’s more accurate to do this way than writing “slightly more than 1 cup oat flour”. 🙂
Thank you Alana, that makes sense as I reread the recipe. The picture shows whole oats and it looked like more than just the 2 TBSP. called for at first, but I realized it is a small batch recipe so 2 TBSP of oats could be enough. I can’t wait to try these, my grandkids will love these.
Never been disappointed with a cookie recipe of yours, so I know these will be no different! 🙂
These sounds great! I’ve been debating what to bake this year for people (I get bored doing the same recipes over and over) and this sounds like a winner. I can’t decide whether I want to try the shredded coconut or rolled oats, but they’re small enough batches I may just try one of each! 🙂
Haha *sound* great… sorry, under-rested today!
Okay, has anyone else tried making these yet? I just tried and I am having so much trouble! My “batter” never reached the consistency I expected… it looked super dry after adding the oil and vanilla, so I started with the minimum amount of milk and kept adding a little bit more and mixing (I ended up adding all of it). I transferred to a plastic bag and tried to smoosh together, but it was an oily, sticky mess that’s incredibly difficult to shape into a small ball. The hold together okay after baking and taste good, but the dough is so tricky! The only thing I can figure is my oat flour wasn’t ground finely enough (I did it myself with quick oats and a small processor) so maybe that kept it from holding together since there aren’t any other binders in the recipe? I used granulated sugar, rolled oats, and veg oil.
I used oat flour and didn’t have a problem, but I used oat flour from a package so it was already finely ground. So that could quite possibly be it!
Thanks, Sara… I may try them again with all-purpose flour to see if they turn out better. They did taste good, but they looked nothing like the pictures and had way more texture than they were supposed to, haha.
I can’t wait to make these! I LOVE cookie dough so I think i’ll try the no-bake version. Btw, Katie, you and your sister both look super cute!
First-stop with the food I can’t stop eating! Seriously, though, I have a killer sweet tooth, so thank you for recipes I can devour without guilt when I’ve had one of those days!
Second-try to only see the people who love you, and not the people who feel the need to “fix” you. The only people who have the right to express concern over your weight are you and the people who love you, who hug you and worry. The other person is your doctor. Anyone else has either nothing else to do except make other people feel bad about themselves, or they don’t understand the concept of social boundaries. They’re the people who “are saying it for your own good.” Those people mean well, but don’t take the time to realize you’re NOT an actual part of their life, they do not know you personally, but because you feel so friendly to all of us, that line gets blurred.
I hope you realize that you are respected and admired by far more people than you realize. Take strength from that, and find some way to feel sympathy for the people who need to fill some hole in their lives by criticizing you. Merry happy!