Pecan Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies have a great coconut flavor. You can use all butter, if you prefer.

Pecan Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients

• 2 ½ cups Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, bleached
• 1 teaspoon Leavening agents, baking soda
• ½ teaspoon Salt, table
• ½ cup butter flavored shortening
• ½ cup Butter, with salt
• ¾ cup Sugars, brown
• ¾ cup Sugars, granulated
• 2 Egg, whole, raw, fresh
• 1 teaspoon coconut extract
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups Nuts, coconut meat, dried (desiccated), sweetened, flaked, packaged
• 1 cup Nuts, pecans
• ¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips
• ¾ cup white chocolate chips

Instructions
 Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

 Step 2
Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Beat shortening, butter, brown sugar, and white sugar in another bowl until smooth. Beat eggs into butter mixture one at a time, adding coconut extract and vanilla extract with the last egg. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture and fold in coconut, pecans, semisweet chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips.

 Step 3
Scoop up dough by spoonfuls and roll into 1-inch balls. Place balls 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten dough balls slightly.

 Step 4
Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

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