Texas Cookies

Things I miss about Texas today (in no particular order):

1. Wearing shorts
2. Bluebonnet and Indian paintbrush-lined highways
3. Queso
4. White chocolate bread pudding



Things that taste good and are largely from Texas:

1. Ruby red grapefruit
2. Pecans


Inspired by Homesick Texan's grapefruit cookies, I bring you these sassed up chewy sugar cookies that remind me a little bit of warm days, though mostly call for a cup of tea.

My Texas Cookies 

1 ¼ c sugar

8 tbs (1 stick butter)

¼ c canola oil

1 egg

½ tsp vanilla extract

2 tbs grapefruit juice

zest 1 grapefruit

2 c flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

¼ tsp salt

½ tsp cinnamon

¼ c crystallized ginger finely chopped

¼ c pecans finely chopped

Heat oven to 350F.

Cream together butter, sugar, and grapefruit zest. Mix in canola oil. Mix in egg, vanilla extract, and grapefruit juice.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.

Stir flour mixture into wet ingredients a third at a time, mixing in between. Stir in ginger and pecans.

The dough will be sticky, so chill it for a spell.

Scoop out dough balls and give them room to spread on the baking sheet. Bake off for 10-12 minutes.