Cowboy Cookies

The name, cowboy cookie, is a bit fantastical. I mean, I am fairly certain that there is only just the faintest hint of connection (if any) between actual cowboys and these cookies. My basic, modest research cannot find a reference anywhere stating that they were invented by cowboys, enjoyed by cowboys, or made in honor of cowboys. It seems the name is simply a sly reference to the rugged manliness implied by the cookie’s bigness and embrace-it-all ingredients.

Whatever their origin