I’ve been making them for years and I’ve found that they’re pretty much universally loved. On one occasion I made them for my mother-in-law to bring to an event. She placed them on the dessert table when she arrived, and she said that so many people snuck to the back of the room during the speaker’s presentation to grab one that there were none left for the reception afterward. (And this recipe makes three dozen.)
The recipe starts as a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe but then folds in shredded coconut, rolled oats, chopped pecans, and cinnamon. That’s ten cups of additions stirred into the dough, so you’ll need your biggest bowl… and some sizable arm muscles. It’s a thick dough, but the end result is a cookie with a chew and texture that’s just positively unmatched.
As mentioned before, these cookies are BIG. They’re scooped out in quarter-cup portions and placed three inches apart…
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