Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookie Bars

This was another of those recipes where I started out with such good intentions, and then it ended up not really working as well as I would have hoped. I'll give the recipe first:


Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup shredded coconut

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
In large bowl, cream the shortening, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Slowly blend in flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until well blended. Fold in chocolate chips, walnuts and coconut. Spread the mixture evenly in pan.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool before cutting into bars.

So there it is. Now, when I made these, I baked them, and they kept jiggling. So I baked for a bit, then they jiggled, and I repeated that like, 3 times, because it just kept jiggling. Finally, I gave up and just pulled them out. I let them cool for quite a bit, then tried to cut them, and all that happened is they just gloobed (not a real word) all over the place. So I let them hang out overnight and then this morning, they were pretty hard, not chewy like the recipe claimed. Maybe another day I can make them better or something, I'll figure it out!