Power Cookies

Total Time: 26 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 16 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 48
• 2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup margarine, softened
• 1 cup crisco shortening
• 4 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 3 cups rolled oats, one-minute style
• 1 (10 ounce) bag coconut
• 1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 (10 ounce) package pecans, cookie pieces

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl, cream together sugars, margarine, and crisco; beat in eggs and vanilla.
• 3 in another bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda.
• 4 beat dry mixture into wet ingredients.
• 5 fold in all other ingredients.
• 6 form golf ball size clumps into cookies about the size of a silver dollar, or use a heaped cookie scoop, then press the tops flat.
• 7 they will be about 1/2-inch thick.
• 8 space in staggered rows with about two inches between cookies.
• 9 bake on parchment-lined cookie sheets for 8-16 minutes.