Author: Susan Murray, www.awomancooksinaasheville.com
Ingredients
½cunsalted butterroom temperature
½cvegetable shorteningCrisco
½cbrown sugarpacked
½ccane sugar
2eggsroom temperature
1tspvanilla
2cflour
1tspbaking soda
½tspbaking powder
½tspsalt
2coatmeal
2cRice Krispies
1csweet shredded coconut
1cupM&Ms
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together the sugars and fats for 8 minutes, stopping the scrape the beaters, sides and bottom of the bowl once or twice. The mixture will become very light in color and creamy.
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating for a full minute after each addition. Scrape the bowl and beaters. Add the vanilla and beat for another full minute.
On low, stir in the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Stir in the oatmeal and Rice Krispies. Then stir in the coconut and M&M’s.
Drop about 2 tablespoons of batter, 2” apart, onto the prepared cookie sheets.
Bake 9-11 minutes until browning on the edges and set.