Ranger Cookies For Cookie Exchange

Here is my recipe for Ranger Cookies:

Ranger Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups quick-cooking oats
2 cups crisp rice cereal
1 cup coconut, sweetened and shredded

Preheat oven to 350°F. 
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in oats, cereal and coconut.
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake 7-9 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks.

Yields: 7 1/2 dozen

I made these Ranger Cookies for a cookie exchange with the ladies from church.

This was the first time I had done a cookie exchange. Our pastor's wife organized the exchange. It was a lot of fun and pretty easy!

If you would like to put together a cookie exchange with your friends this is what you need to do.

1. Determine how many people want to be involved.

2. Tell everyone to make 1/2 a dozen cookies for the number of participants. For example: if 8 people are signed up than every person needs to bake 4 dozen cookies.

3. Everyone needs to put their cookies on plates or containers (1/2 a dozen in each) to give to the other participants, along with a copy of the recipe they used. Make a plate of cookies for everyone involved, including yourself. The "extra" plate, (the one for yourself), gets eaten at the exchange.

4. Invite everyone over to share cookies and  have milk, hot cocoa, coffee, tea, etc... Everyone will pass their plates of 1/2 a dozen cookies out to the other participants to take home and will share one of their plates of half a dozen cookies at the party.
Everyone ends up taking home as many cookies as they brought, but they are all different varieties.