Crisp Or Chewy Cowboy Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups unbleached wheat flour
• 1 1/2 cups of quaker quick oats
• 1/2 teaspoon ground sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup room tempature butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 3 tablespoons clover honey or 3 tablespoons of wild-flower honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup ghiradelli semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup ground pecans

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven at 350 degrees fahrenheit. prepare light aluminum cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• 2 lightly blend the first five (5) dry ingredients in a medium bowl, set aside.
• 3 cream together the next six (6) ingredients in a medium bowl, then add to a large mixing bowl.
• 4 gently stir the blended dry ingredients into the creamed mixture.
• 5 fold in chocolate chips and crushed pecans.
• 6 you will be using your hands or an icecream scooper to make a 2-3 tablespoon size ball of dough, then flatten it out with the bottom of a glass or palm of your hand. these should be spaced away from the other cookies by at least 1-2". should be able to fit 6 cookies on a fully covered cookie sheet, i was able to get 5 or 6 baked at a time.
• 7 bake for about 15 minutes (for chewier) or up to 18 minutes (for crispier cookies.) these cool completely in about 10 minutes on a cookie rack.