Ranger Cookies {a.k.a. Santa’s Favorite}

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Have you ever heard of Ranger Cookies? These are an old fashioned classic.

They use oats, cornflakes, coconut, raisins, pecans and other basic ingredients to make the perfect cookies.

Santa loves these at my house, but honestly we make them all year long. My kids love them and we’ve been known to eat them for breakfast! I mean… they have cereal in them!

Ready to see how easy these are to make?

Ingredients for Ranger Cookies

• 2 sticks butter (at room temperature)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp salt (I used Kosher)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups cornflakes
• 2 cups raw oatmeal
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup coconut

Mix the first eight ingredients. I like to use my standing mixer on medium.

Mix until everything is completely smooth. About 2 minutes or so.

Now add the remaining ingredients.

It will fill your mixing bowl pretty full.

You have a couple of choices. You can mix with your hands, or turn your mixer on the lowest speed.

Be careful if you choose the mixer option. This is a pretty solid concoction that can  bounce your mixer around a little.

When you’re done mixing, cover and place it in the fridge. It is preferable that you leave it in there overnight.

I have cooked a batch without refrigerating the dough and they turned out fine. I think cooking them overnight just helps all of the ingredients get nice and cozy.

Now you’re ready to bake.

I like using a small or medium melon scooper.

You can use a kitchen spoon, too. Either way is fine. You’re not forming a perfect circle or anything.

I like to line my cookie sheet if I am not using a baking stone.

Leave about 1-2 inches in between each cookie. These cookies spread during the baking process.

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

I like mine gooey in the middle and slightly crisp around the edges.

Transfer them to a cooling rack.

I just slide them onto the rack with the parchment paper still under them. (Have I mentioned I love parchment paper?)

Once they are cool they are ready to enjoy.

One batch of this cookie dough will make tons of cookies- about 3-4 dozen.

You do not have to cook all of the dough at one time. Just pop it back in the fridge.

I would use the dough within 5 days or so.