Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Shortening
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Cup White Sugar
• 1 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
• 5 Tablespoons Cocoa (dissolve in 2-3 Tablesoons of hot water (paste consistency)
• 2 Cups Oatmeal
• 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
• 1/4 Cup Wheat Germ
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon baking soda
• pinch of salt
• smidge of cinnamon
• pinch of nutmeg
• 2 Tablespoons Maple syrup
• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla
• 1-1/4 Cups Chopped roasted pecans

Directions

Preheat oven 350. Add and mix as you go in the order presented.

Drop cookie dough on ungreased baking sheet. (About size of ping pong ball)

Bake for 12 minutes ONLY and gently take off sheet pan and place on newspaper.
They will NOT look done, but take out anyway- you WON”T BE SORRY