A gift a day...December 14

This is Kelsey, our youngest son's girlfriend. She made these cookies and gave me some for my birthday the other day. They were delicious so I asked her if I could share the recipe here.
Look how cute they stack up in this adorable little snow flake bag with matching card.

Wild Iris cookies

Ingredients ~

• 1 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 ½ tablespoons water
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup white chocolate chips
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 ½ cups coconut
• 1 ½ cups dried cranberries
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1 ½ cups granola

Method ~

In a small mixing bowl, blend the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until creamy. Add the eggs, vanilla and water. Mix until well blended.

In another much larger bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda, then add the white chocolate chips, chocolate chips, coconut, cranberries, walnuts, rolled oats and the granola. Then add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and blend well.

When well mixed, shape into golf ball sized balls and place on an ungreased parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Bake at 325° for 10 minutes or until just turning brown around the edges. When you pull the cookies out of the oven they will look like they are not quite done—and they will be flat and spread out. Take a spatula and gently round them out. After a few minutes, remove them from the cookie sheet and place them on a cooling rack. At this point, give them another “rounding” with the spatula which will give them some height. Let them cool to set.

~enjoy