I got this recipe from my mom's recipe collection notebook.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup margarine
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup dessicated coconut or oatmeal
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease one 9x13 rectangular pan.
- Melt margarine in microwave for about 40 seconds. Cool slightly.
- Add in brown sugar and mix with a wooden spoon.
- Add in eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition.
- Add vanilla. Mix.
- Sift flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda together in a separate medium sized. Add in dessicated coconut or oatmeal with dry ingredients and mix well.
- Mix dry ingredients with the butter-egg mixture and mix until everything has moistened.
- Pour into greased pan and bake for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted at the center comes out with a few moist crumbs.
- Cool slightly and cut into squares.