Wheaties Cookies

These are my all time favorite cookies. My grandmother has been making these longer than I have been around! I believe that her mother got the recipe on a trip to California. Be sure not to brown them, you DO NOT want to over bake them. The yield is approx along with the servings, the recipe is so big!

• Ready In: 18 mins
• Serves: 30
• Yields: 50 cookies

Ingredients

• 2  cups brown sugar
• 2  cups granulated sugar
• 1 1⁄2 cups butter or 1 1⁄2 cups margarine
• 5  eggs
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 5  cups flour
• 2  teaspoons baking soda
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 4  cups  wheat flakes cereal
• 12  ounces chocolate chips (more or less depending on your taste)

Directions

1. Cream the butter and sugars.
2. Add eggs one at a time.
3. Add vanilla.
4. Continue to cream while you combine all the dry ingredients, minus the Wheaties and chocolate chips. Run a whisk through to incorporate everything.
5. Slowly add flour mixture to wet ingredients.
6. Using a wooden spoon and some elbow grease, pour in the Wheaties and chocolate chips and combine.
7. Drop onto lightly buttered (that's what Grandma did!) cookie sheet.
8. Bake at 350°F for approximately 8 minutes or until very light brown. DO NOT OVER BAKE.