Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

Oh man.  This is one of those "I can only make it ever so often because I can't stop eating them" kind of recipes.

I don't bake very much.  We consume enough sugar in our house without trying.  Seriously everything has sugar in it.  Olives...pickles...peanut butter...things you wouldn't think!  When I cut sugar out for my Whole30 challenge sometimes I got frustrated when I'd find sugar in something that I was positive wouldn't have it! Greek olives?  Give me a break!

Anyway....I did bake these cookies.  And they totally supported my "I really shouldn't bake" assumption because they were gone way too quickly.  Now I do have two partners in crime but still!  I can't blame them entirely.

Coconut Oatkmeal Cookies

1 cup butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

11/2 cup flour

3 cups oatmeal

1 cup coconut

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

2 eggs

1 tsp baking soda

It's always a good idea to set your butter out a little before you plan to bake.  This makes it much easier to blend.  I did NOT do that when I made these and had some slight problems in the baking stage because my butter was still too chunky.  More on that in a minute.

Blend your butter and sugar.  Mix in the rest of the ingredients and bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes.

Sounds simple enough right?  For the most part it is.  However I wasn't sure whether to make little balls or flatten the cookies. The first batch I made 1-inch balls.  Oh my word.  My cookies were as big as a plate.  They spread so far and it was WAY too much dough.  So the next round I made 1/2 inch balls and then flattened them on the cookie sheet with my palm.  This made much better cookies.  

These aren't very doughy at all.  Next time I made them I plan to only use 2 cups of oats instead of 3 to see how the consistency changes.  They taste fabulous but are very easy to over-do.  I am a professional cookie over cooker.  So of course half of mine were slightly crunchy.  But it was a good crunchy and certainly didn't stop them from disappearing as I've noted!

These are such a yummy twist on traditional oatmeal cookies!  I hope you love them as much as we do!