Jenna’s Cowboy Cookies

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    16

    large cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      40 min

Appears in
Today Loves Food: Recipes from America’s Favorite Kitchen

By The Today Show

Published 2025

  • About

These cookies are very Texas. They’re massive and studded with so many mix-ins: chocolate chips, oats, coconut flakes, and pecans. Laura Bush put them on the map during her husband’s first presidential campaign, but she was making them for her kids well before that. Jenna loves them for their “Texan hardiness,” she says. “They capture the spirit of where I’m from.” To make them a little more moist,