Farmer Cookies

Theresa P's Note:

A good, old fashioned, mid-western cookie! We grew up eating these cookies. My grandma made them often! This recipe calls for melting the shortening and then creaming it with the sugar. I think that is the secret to making these cookies so crispy and light!

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 4 dozen

• 1 cup vegetable shortening
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups oatmeal (uncooked)
• 2 cups corn flakes (either one works nicely) or 2 cups crisp rice cereal (either one works nicely)
• 1 cup flaked coconut
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

1. Melt shortening, pour over sugars. Mix well.
2. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
3. Stir dry ingredients together and add to sugar mixture. Mix lightly.
4. Add oatmeal, cereal, coconut, chocolate chips, and nuts and mix well.
5. Drop by tablespoon on greased cookie sheet.
6. Bake at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes.
7. I use my cookie scoop and get 4 dozen yummy cookies!

Reviews

[wax lion]

I had to make a couple alterations based on what I had - used 1/3 cup each of butter and butter-flavored shortening, 1/2 cup white-whole wheat flour, crisped rice, and skipped the coconut and nuts - and these are great! They still came out quite crispy/crunchy even with less fat, and the recipe count was spot-on. I didn't grease the cookie sheets & they were fine. Will definitely make again - thank you!

[Apostolic]

I made these fabulous cookies with butter instead of vegetable shortning. Also, I only had chocolate corn flakes which added a really nice color to the beautiful texture. These were simply wonderful and wonderfully simple!! Good job Theresa P!!!

[Piper Lee]

My kids came through the door after school today, sniffed the air and shouted, "Cookies!" Then they laid waste to the entire batch. (I have a lot of kids) These were terrific cookies. Left out the nuts, (my kids and dh think they hate nuts) and added extra choco chips. Next time I'm going to mess around with it and add stuff like sunflower seeds and stuff. Thanks for the yummy recipe!