Posted by: Schmitty 11-03-99 12:49 AM
Turtle Cookies
1 cup shortening or use half butter and half margarine
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pecan halves and chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream shortening and sugar; beat in egg yolks and vanilla.
Add sifted flour and salt.
Roll teaspoons of dough into balls. Flatten out slightly and push 4 pecan halves into cookies to look like legs of a turtle.
Stick in another pecan half for head.
Bake about 12 minutes or until set.
Immediately place 4 or 5 chocolate chips on top of each cookie.
When softened, spread to cover cookie.
Makes about 6 dozen turtles.