Copycat Recipes: Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies!

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 pound butter or margarine
3/4 cup shortening or corn oil
1 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups flour
7 ounces flaked coconut
1 package (12 ounce size) semisweet chocolate chips
6 ounces pecans, broken

DIRECTIONS:

Combine as listed and shape into 2" balls 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 degrees F for 15 minutes. Transfer at once from baking sheets to paper toweling to cool. These freeze well either before or after baked.

Makes 60

Source: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/515/Famous_Amos_Chocolate_Chip_Cookies_235305.shtml