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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i really like this recipe. cookies hold together really well and they taste deliciously oaty. I left the dough in the fridge overnight before baking so next time i would probably add the pretsels in right before i bake them so they stay crunchy 🙂
These were mighty tasty. Yes indeed. I did use mint chocolate chips though, cuz that’s what was on hand. The minty taste was just fine.
These are so delicious!! I made them last Christmas and couldn’t stop eating them. I made them again last weekend, and I’m not sure what I did differently, but the pretzel pieces were hard and chewy. They lost their crunch. What could I have done wrong? Maybe they weren’t crunched up enough?? They were still delicious, but I loved the crunch of the pretzels last time I made them.
I plan to make these for a Super Bowl party. They are one of my favorites.
Hi Katie,
I am new to your page, and this is the first recipe I have tried,…..and OMG these were actually the best cookies ever! I normally make full fat gooey white choc or peanutbutter cookies and I thought they were the best…until now. I took out the white sugar and put some dried cranberry and a small amount of white choc chips and they are sooo good I have had to portion them off because I will eat them all!
I look forward to trying more of your recipes 🙂 FYI, this si the first time I have ever written a review on anything but these were that good that I had to 🙂
I wish I saw this recipe before now! I just pulled my last sheet of cowboy cookies out of the oven and they are waaaay too sweet! (I questioned the 3/4 cup of both sugar and brown sugar.) I think I’ll be giving those away and try your batch!
I LOVE this recipe!! I have made it a few times and love it!!! Two things that intrigued me were the pictures–amazing! And, secondly, I love the name of it. I am a country girl at heart and the word ‘cowboy’ made me click very fast on that recipe! So glad I found it!
Made them today and they came out super delicious!!!!! Best recipe ever!
Thank you for making them!
Question, could you sub half the oat flour for all purpose flour?
You can definitely experiment!
I’ll do that ?
Omg for being vegan theses are awesome cookie! I just made a batch for my brothers bday, I’ve already ate 3?Lol.Thanks for the recipe?❤️