Loaded Oatmeal Cookies

These are good. This recipe makes a million, no, a hundred-million cookies. It will barely fit in your mixing bowl. Do not double it. We tried once. It was a disaster.

Loaded Oatmeal Cookies (ala Ashley's family)

1.5 cup shortening
2.25 cup brown sugar
1.25 cup white sugar
3 eggs
3 Tbs cold water
1.5 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1.5 tsp baking soda
3.5 cup flour
4.5 cup oatmeal
1 bag M&M's
half bag each white chocolate and butterscotch chips
(really use any combo of chips, M&M's, candy, ect.)

Cream shortening and sugars.
Add eggs, water, and vanilla. Cream.
Mix in flour, soda and salt. Mix in oatmeal.
Add M&M's and yummy chips.
Shape into balls and bake at 325* at 8-10 minutes.
Cool on pan for a few minutes and the remove.

And if you're really shaping these into balls with your hands or spoons, you need one of these. The favorite combo of chips at our house has been white M&M's (back when they had the Pirate Pearl M&M's) with chocolate and butterscotch chips. Mmmmm...