Name: Cowboy Cookies
Yield: Yield: makes about 36 Cookies
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 14 tablespoons (1¾ sticks) unsalted butter, cool but not cold, cut into 1-inch cubes; 2 cups rolled oats; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ¾ cup granulated sugar; 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar; 1 large egg; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 large egg yolk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; ¾ cup thin salty pretzels (about 1½ ounces), broken into tiny pieces but not crushed into dust; 2 cups semisweet chocolate chunks (about 12 ounces); 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder; 1¾ cups all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Yield: makes about
36
Cookies

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Baked Explorations

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

About

The name, cowboy cookie, is a bit fantastical. I mean, I am fairly certain that there is only just the faintest hint of connection (if any) between actual cowboys and these cookies. My basic, modest research cannot find a reference anywhere stating that they were invented by cowboys, enjoyed by cowboys, or made in honor of cowboys. It seems the name is simply a sly reference to the rugged manliness implied by the cookie’s bigness and embrace-it-all ingredients.

Whatever their origin