SPECIAL COOKIES

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Crispy and light drop cookies with walnuts, coconut and crisp rice and wheat cereal. Increase raisins to 1 cup if you like raisins.

Provided by Stephanie da Silva

Categories Desserts Cookies Drop Cookie Recipes

Time 30m

Yield 36

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups high protein crisp rice and wheat cereal
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts
½ cup raisins

Steps:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time then stir in the vanilla. Blend in the sifted ingredients until just incorporated. Mix in the cereal, coconut, walnuts and raisins. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Cookies should be at least 2 inches apart.
Bake for 9 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 153.6 calories, Carbohydrate 18.4 g, Cholesterol 23.9 mg, Fat 8.2 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 2.5 g, SaturatedFat 4.1 g, Sodium 133.3 mg, Sugar 9.2 g