Everything Cookies

These cookies have just about anything you could ever imagine in a cookie, and is a good way to clear out a pantry. It is also a fun cookie to make with little hands. Something for everyone!

You will need:

1/2 c shortening
1/2 c butter, softened
3/4 c granulated sugar
3/4 c brown sugar, packed
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 c all purpose flour
1/3 c cocoa powder
2 1/2 c rolled oats (not quick)
1 c semisweet chocolate chips
1 c white or peanut butter chips*
1 c macadamia nuts, lightly TOASTED and chopped

Okay, there are a lot of ingredients, but hang in there! Good cookie

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, line all your cookie sheets with parchment paper. I reuse my parchment paper, because I use so much of it and I am cheap like that. Before you do anything else, let`s toast the macadamia nuts. These nuts are hella expensive and hard to find (Safeway does a small 100g bag, get two), let`s make sure they taste their very best. Spread them on a parchment-covered cookie sheet, bake for 10-15 minutes at 350, stirring every five minutes and removing JUST as soon as you smell them. Right then! Faster, soldier! Off the sheet and into a bowl to await chopping. When they are cool, chop. I find chopping nuts on a flexible plastic cutting board maximizes yield.

Plain old regular macadamia nuts

Amazing toasted macadamia nuts!

Mix the shortening and butter in a stand mixer for 30 seconds, then add in the sugars, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Combined fats

If you can find a helper to work the bowl, it's even better

Add the eggs and vanilla, then the flour and cocoa powder slowwwly. Add in as much of the oats as you can. Note: these are rolled, or "slow" oats, not quick oats. As you were. Stir in the chocolate pieces and chopped nuts. *A quick note about the chocolate chip choices: I don't like white chocolate (it's not chocolate!) but I find they work really well in this recipe. Something about their over-sweetness balances out the richness well. In this case I used a couple of different types, white and a little bit of butterscotch as well as the semi-sweet.

Looks like rocky road something

Nom nom nom

You can make huge cookies or you can make small cookies. I prefer to use my second-smallest scoop and do 12 to a sheet. They don't spread much.

If you have a helper, a good thing for them to do is gently squish them flat

Bake for 10 to 14 minutes and then let sit on the sheet for a minute before offloading them to a wire rack. I couldn't go a second over 10 minutes in my smoking hot ovens.

Far!

Near!

Enjoy!