Texas Governor's Mansion Cowboy Cookies

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
• 2 cups sweetened flake coconut
• 2 cups chopped pecans (8 ounces)

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in bowl.
3. In a very large bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth and creamy.
4. Gradually beat in sugars, and combine thoroughly.
5. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each.
6. Beat in vanilla.
7. Stir in flour mixture until just combined.
8. Stir in chocolate chips, oats, coconut and pecans.
9. For each cookie, drop 1/4 cup dough onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing 3 inches apart.
10. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes, until edges are lightly browned; rotate sheets halfway through.
11. Remove cookies from rack to cool.

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Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/4997 (may not work)