Carrot Cake Cowboy Cookies. As a writer, the alliteration – all those C’s – pleases me. As a mother, the hidden veggies and other good stuff packed in there pleases me. As a cookie lover, well … I’m just plain pleased.

These are serious cookies. Large, in charge, and chock full of all kinds of goodies, cowboy cookie style.

I have a more traditional cowboy cookie recipe that my family and I love, but this time, I thought I’d take them to Carrot Cake Town – the meanest town in the west. Just kidding. It’s actually the most delicious town.

So here’s what we’ve got. From the cowboy cookie side, we’ve got the standard cookie base – butter, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla. Oats, because that’s a cowboy cookie thing. On the carrot cake side, we’ve got carrots (of course) and coconut, plus raisins if you wish. And then some white chocolate chips, to boot.

Get it? Boot? Cowboy cookies? Sorry.

These are serious cookies – each about as big as the palm of an adult hand. I just have this weird belief that cowboy cookies should be kind of giant. You can make certainly make them smaller, if you wish. I usually churn out a few smaller ones for my toddler, lest she be eating a cookie nearly the size of her head.

Dear Cowboy Cake Carrot Cookies: I’m your huckleberry.

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And it was good.

So I decided to share the recipe with y’all. The end.

How’s that for a lazy intro?!

Okay, so about this delicious, moist, irresistible quick bread.

It’s moist. Like, super moist. Naturally moist summer squash helps; the coconut oil seals the deal. Yep, this bread takes coconut oil instead of the vegetable or canola oil you’ll often find in quick bread recipes. If you’re not sure about coconut, don’t worry. You can’t detect the taste of coconut at all. Pinkie swear.

I thought this bread would be delicious with a bit of almond extract, but it felt wrong to leave out the vanilla. So I used both. Oh, and cinnamon, too. I couldn’t not!

The white chocolate chips can be left out, but I like the bit of interesting melty sweetness they add here and there.

So that’s the scoop on White Chocolate Chip Summer Squash Bread. In a nutshell, it’s the best quick bread I’ve ever made. Seriously. And I think you’ll like it, too.

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