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  • Devils Food Dltop Cookies

    Ingredients:

    1/2zcup buUer or margarine
    J cup brown sugar
    J egg
    J tsp. vanilla
    2 (one-oz.) squares chocolate
    melted and cooled
    2 cups sifted flour
    ‘Ii tsp. soda
    1/2 cup dairy sour cream
    1/4 cup chopped walnuts or
    pecans

    Instructions:

    Cream butter and sugar until fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla. Srir in chocolate. Sift together dry ingredients; add to chocolate mixture aJter-nateJy with sour cream. Mix well; stir in nuts. Drop from teaspoo r apart, on greased cookie sheet. Bake in 350° oven until done. Frost

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  • Chocoiate Yum Yums Cookies

    Ingredients:

    1/2 cup butter
    1/2 cup sugar
    1 egg
    2 oz. chocolate melted
    2 cup flour
    1/2 tsp. baking powder
    1/2 tsp. soda
    1/2 tsp. salt
    1/2 cup Dr. Pepper
    2 tsp. vanilla
    1 cup walnuts

    Instructions:

    Cream butter, sugar. Add egg; add chocolate. Sift dry ingredients; add alternately with Dr. Pepper. Add vanilla, 3/4. nuts. Place dough on 15 X 12″ cookie sheet. Cover with waxed paper; roJJ to within I” of edge; remove paper. Sprinkle dough with remaining nuts. BaJce at 375° for about 14 minutes. Cut into squares while hot; remove and cool on rack. Makes 3 to 31⁄2 dozen.

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    Makes 3 to 31⁄2 dozen

  • Cream Puffs With Vanilia Custard Filling Cookies

    Ingredients:

    1 cup flour
    1 cup water
    1⁄2 cup butter or margarine
    4 eggs

    Instructions:

    Heat water and butter to rolJing boil. Stir in flour; stir vigorously over low heat about I minute or until mixture fonns into a ball. Remove from heat. Beat in eggs, all at one time; continue beating until smooth. Dropdough by scant 1/2. cupfuls, 3″ ap onto ungreased baking sheet Bake 35-40 minutes at 400° or until puffed and golden. cut off tops. Fill with custard; dust with confectioners sugar.

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  • Jubilee Jlthibles Cookies

    Ingredients:

    1/4 cup sort shortening
    J cup brown sugar
    1/2 cup white sugar
    1 cup undiluted Carnation milk
    2 eggs
    2J;_, cups sifted flour
    1 tsp. salt
    1/2 tsp. soda
    t tsp. vanilla

    Instructions:

    Mix thoroughly shortening, sugars. eggs. Stir in milk vanilla. Sift together flour, sod saJt. and stir in. Blend in nucs. Chall I hou. Heat oven to 375°. Drop to gre baking heet. Bake about IO nunut until brown. Frost with Burnt Butter Glaze.

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  • Coconut Oa Ieal Pecal Cookies

    Ingredients:

    J cup shortening
    J cup brown sugar
    1 cup white sugar
    2 eggs
    l-1/1 cups oatmeal
    1 cup coconut
    1 cup pecans, chopped
    2 cups flour
    1 tsp. baking soda
    1 tsp. baking powder
    1 tsp. vanilla;., tsp. salt

    Instructions:

    Place all ingredients into large bowl. Mix with hands. Roll imo bal and flatten with bottom of glass. Bake in 350° oven 10-12 minutes.

    Notes:

    Tbsp. is one of the many recipes I got from my bter. Sharo Watkins. She issuchagreat cook that I treasure any recipe she giv me

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  • Mississippi Mud Cookies

    Ingredients:

    1 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels
    1⁄2 cup butter softened
    1 cup sugar
    2 large eggs
    1 tsp. vanilla
    1/2 cups all-purpose flour
    1 tsp. baking powder
    1/2 tsp. salt
    1 cup chopped pecans
    1/2 cup milk chocolate morsels
    1 cup plus
    2 Tbsp. miniature marshmallows
    2 c. butter
    4 c. flour
    2 tsp. soda
    2 c. sugar

    Instructions:

    Microwave semi-sweet chocolate morsels in a small microwave safe glass bowl and high for I minute or until smooth, stirring every 30 seconds. Beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; add eggs, I at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Beat in vanilla and melted chocolate. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; gradually add tochocolate mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in chopped pecans and 1/2 cup milk chocolate morsels. Drop dough by heaping tablespoonfuls onto parchment paper lined baking sheets. Press 3 marshmallows into each ponion of dough. Bake at 3500 for I0-12 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks. Yields about 3 dozen.

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    Yields about 3 dozen

  • Vall Tuf Christmas Toffe,E Candy

    Ingredients:

    1 cup butter
    1 cup granulated sugar
    3 Tbsp. water
    1/2 cup chopped walnuts or
    pecans
    I (6-oz.) package semi-sweet morsels, melted

    Instructions:

    Butter a 9″ square pan. Melt butter in a 2 Qt. saucepan. Stir in sugar gradually. Add syrup and water. Cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally to 290° on candy thennometer or until a little mixture in cold water becomes very brittle. Add 1 c. nuts. Cook 3 minutes more, stining constantly. Pour in pan. When cold, remove from pan. Melt chips, coat one side with chocolate and nuts. Aip and repeat. Break into pieces.

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  • Pecan Pralines

    Ingredients:

    2 cups sugar
    1 tsp. soda
    1 cup buttermilk
    1/4 tsp. salt
    2 Tbsp. butter
    2 1/2 cups pecan halves

    Instructions:

    In a large heavy saucepan, combine sugar, soda, buttermilk, and salt. Cook over high heat for 5 minutes or until candy thermometer reaches 210°F, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom of the pan. Add butter and pecans. Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until candy reaches 234°F. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Beat until thick and creamy. Drop by tablespoons onto waxed paper and cool. Makes 18 two-inch pralines.

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  • Pecan Delights Candy

    Ingredients:

    1/2acups packed brown sugar
    1 cup butter or margarine
    1 cup light corn syrup
    11. tsp. salt
    1 (14-oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
    1 tsp. vanilla extract
    1/2 lb. whole pecans
    1 (6-oz.) cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
    1 (6-oz.) cube milk chocolate chips
    2 Tbsp. shortening

    Instructions:

    In large saucepan, combine first 4 ingredients. Cook over medium heat until all sugar is dissolved. Gradually add milk and mix weJJ. Continue cooking unti1 candy thennometer reads 248°(firm-ball stage). Remove from heat, stir in vanilla until blended. Fold in the pecans. Drop by tablespoonfuJs onto a waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. Chill until firm. Melt chocolate chips and shortening in a microwave-safe bowl or double boiler. Drizzle over each cluster. Cool. Yields about 4 dozen.

    Notes:

    It is hard to resist rich chewy caramel over crunchy pecans covered with sweet chocolate. Tbsp. candy has become a holiday favorite of our family and is fun to make and to eat.

    Servings Yield:

    Yields about 4 dozen

  • Toffee

    Ingredients:

    1 1/2 cups pecans
    2 cups sugar
    1 cup butter
    1/2 cup light cream
    1/2 cup light Karo syrup
    1/2 tsp. salt
    2 tsp. vanilla
    1 package chocolate chips, melted

    Instructions:

    Butter a 13 x 9-inch pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup pecans over the bottom of the pan. Mix sugar, butter, cream, syrup, and salt in a large pan. Cook until hard-crack stage (300°F). Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Pour into pan. Cool and remove from pan. Spread melted chocolate over toffee. Sprinkle remaining pecans over top. Cool and break into bite-size pieces.

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