Recipe for cooking the back roads coffee house mookies

Cooking with Coffee :: Coffee Desserts

The Back Roads Coffee House Mookies

Source: The Back Roads Coffee House, Sutter Creek - Shared by Pam Afpinall, original owner - Sunset\s 1997 Recipe Annual

1 c. butter or margarine, room temperature
1 1/2 c. firmly packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
3 c. regular rolled oats
1 c. all-purpose flour
1 tea. salt
1/2 tea. baking powder
1 c. chopped walnuts
1/2 c. sweetened shredded dried coconut
1/2 c. raisins

Mix butter and brown sugar until thoroughly blended. Add eggs and vanilla extract or flavoring; beat well.

In another bowl, combine oats, flour, salt and baking powder. Blend oat mixture with butter mixture. Stir in walnuts, coconut and raisins. Pack cookie dough into an ice cream scoop (4-oz. size) or 1/2-c. measuring c.. Scrape dough level with rim and empty onto lightly oiled baking sheets, spacing dough about 3 inches apart. Bake at 350 degrees F until cookie edges are golden brown, about 20 min..

If using one oven, switch pans halfway through baking. Cool cookies on a rack. Serve or store airtight up to 2 days.