COVID-19 Cookies or everything Abby decided sounded good

Some people excel at homeschooling. Others at taking temperatures. My super power is butter.

When everyone was stocking up on TP, I was concerned about my butter supply. I only had seven sticks at home. When I finally did get to the grocery store, seven days after it had been raided clean only VERY expensive butter (put some of that in the cart) and cheaper trans free margarine by country crock remained.

After nearly five days of isolation, three loaves of bread, bran raisin muffins, and one cake, I found myself itchy to use my country crock margarine. For what? I wasn’t sure. Below is my invention: Covid-19 Cookies or otherwise known as everything Abby decided would be good. Let’s face it I am either going to gain 10 pounds or pickle my liver. I am going with the ten pounds. 

Ingredients: 
2 sticks of country crock-- trans fat free
⅔ cup brown sugar
¼ cup white sugar
1 egg, 1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups white flour
½ cup cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½  tsp salt
1 ½ cups oats
1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes (I suggest Bob Red Mills, nice and fat shavings)
1 to 2 to 3 cups of chocolate chips depending how desperate you are for sugar

1. In your trusty kitchenaid whip that margarine. Add both sugars. Whip for two to three minutes until fluffy.
   
2. Add eggs and vanilla. Why just a yoke? It tends to make the cookies chewy. But I’m not sure. B/c I decided to pull out all my baking tricks in any recipe I’ve ever read.
   
3. Mix together the flour, baking powder and soda, salt, and cocoa. 
   
4. Add flour to butter mixture. Once everything is well combined, scraping down sides of your kitchenaid mixer a few times, fold in the oats, coconut and chocolate chips. 
   

Bake
Yes bake.
Bake in a pan or as individual cookies. Definitely bake at 325. For how long I couldn’t tell you. The cookies should take no more than 15 minutes, but the bars…. 40? Don’t worry. Salmonella is not as dangerous as COVID-19. Eat the batter and skip the baking all together. Sit in front of your mixer like I did and eat enough finger fulls of batter until you feel a bit queasy and realize you are social-isolating-eating. 
After you are finished, bake and eat them all yourself or share them with the other people you are in seclusion with, especially grumpy teenage boys who might save you from gaining 10 pounds if you feed them first everything you bake.

Hoard you butter, no TP!

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