Cheri's Chocolate Chip Cookies

We made some cookies tonight mostly for Brady's Modern World History teacher (bribing for help with this diplomacy game) and I told Brady he could bring in a dozen for him. Brady asks how much will be left over and I say a lot. Brady then asks 'can I have a dozen?' So because he is razor thin and maybe because my own mother never let me have a dozen cookies when I was a kid (and okay, a really good reason to get them out of the house so I don't eat that dozen cookies myself) I said 'yes'. Isn't it funny how it created the notion you're the best mother in the world - Brady didn't say that, but a hug and excitement in his voice said he was extremely happy for his share of the cookies - LoL

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Turn on oven to 375º.

1 cup flaked coconut

Brown coconut in oven for 5-10 minutes.

2 cups butter

4 cups brown sugar

4 tsp vanilla

4 eggs

1 cup mayonnaise

Cream butter and brown sugar until whipped lightly, add vanilla, eggs and mayo in and mix well.

5 cups oatmeal (finely blended)

4 cups whole wheat pastry flour

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

3 tsp kosher salt

In a blender, finely blend oatmeal and then combine with flour, soda, powder and salt. Add to butter mixture.

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

2 cups white chocolate chips

2 cups toffee chips

Add all chips and coconut to dough and stir together well.

Drop by spoon fulls on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 8-9 minutes.

I usually just bake a dozen and roll the rest of the dough into balls, place on cookie sheet and freeze 4 hours or overnight. Then I place the cookie balls into freezer zip lock bags and can bake them up real quickly! =) You could add nuts if you like. You can also cut this recipe in half - it works the same.