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Happy spring, everyone, and have you gone through your pantry lately? Like the rest of your kitchen, it most likely needs a good cleaning. Allrecipes user SassGG came up with a Spring-Cleaning Cookies recipe to do exactly that.
“I was cleaning out my kitchen cabinets and found several ingredients which needed to be used up so I came up with these chewy coconut, oatmeal, chocolate chip, and pecan cookies,” SassGG says.
There’s no reason to waste good ingredients, and if it creates something delicious, does it really count as a chore?
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What Makes This Recipe So Special?
Cookie lovers know that a good dessert is all about texture, and this recipe has a lot of it. Chocolate chips, rolled oats, pecans, and flaked coconut all add their own distinct consistency to create a cookie that’s chewy, crunchy, and toothsome all at once.
Even better than that, though, is the recipe’s very nature—customization. Don’t quite have all the ingredients stocked in your pantry, or do you have different types of baking chips and nuts that can be utilized? Substitute your own surplus ingredients for anything you don’t have on hand—the entire point of this recipe, after all, is to clean out your baking supplies instead of running to the store and cluttering your pantry up even more.
How to Make Spring-Cleaning Cookies
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Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F and grease up two cookie sheets. Then, cream butter, shortening, white sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl until the mixture is light and fluffy, and stir in evaporated milk and vanilla extract.
Now, it’s time for the remaining dry ingredients—combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl, and then add to the butter mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips, oats, pecans, and coconut.
Using a tablespoon, drop rounded dough onto the prepared cookie sheets, spacing each two inches apart. Bake at 375 degrees F for 13 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown, switching racks halfway through. Let the cookies cool slightly on the sheets before transferring them to wire racks, where they can cool completely.
What the Allrecipes Community Has to Say
Whether they’re using these cookies as a vehicle for spring cleaning or just want to make a crowd-pleasing dessert, Allrecipes users are big fans of this recipe.
- “These cookies are incredible! Everyone loved them, even the kids who don't like coconut,” says Allrecipes user EMMASA01. “I used up all my extra ingredients too. I'll have to go buy more because I will make these again and again!”
- Several community members altered the recipe to suit their preferences or the ingredients they had on hand. If you do take this recipe’s name to heart and add extra ingredients, keep an eye on the cookies after sticking them in the oven.
- “I made fairly good-sized cookies and they were done in 10 minutes,” says Allrecipes user naples34102.
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