Pecan Snowball Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose or cake flour
• 1 1/2 cups pecans, finely chopped
• 2-3 Tbsp sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 pound butter (at room temperature)
• Pinch of salt
• Powdered sugar, to coat (about 1 cup)

Method

1 Preheat the oven to 300°F and prepare a large cookie sheet.
2 Mix all the dry ingredients (flour, walnuts, salt, sugar) in a large bowl. Add the vanilla extract. Add the butter in little pieces, and combine everything together with your (clean!) hands until the mixture looks like a coarse meal with nut bits in it. Form the dough into small balls no larger than a walnut and place on the cookie sheet, spaced at least an inch apart from each other.
3 Bake for 35 minutes. When they are still warm, but cool enough to touch, roll the cookies in some powdered sugar. Set aside on a rack to cool completely. When cool, dust again in powdered sugar.
Makes about 20 cookies.

Chocolate No BakeCookies

Willy made some great cookies last night for Willy and Mrs Willy. These are some of Willy's Favorite - Easy cookies. -- Also More on Cookies in another post or two.

These cookies consist basically of putting sugar, butter, cocoa and milk in a pan and boiling for 2 minutes. Then add peanut butter, oatmeal and vanilla. Mix and drop. - Great Cookies.

2 C Sugar
2 T Cocoa
1 Stick Margarine
1/2 C Milk
1/2 C Crunchy Peanut Butter
3 C Oatmeal
1 tsp vanilla

Willy actually cuts recipe in half.

EAT WELL

10-4 Willy

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pinwheels

Willy is still stuck on the Holidays and wants to make sweets. Willy has used this recipe in the past and it gets good results and looks good too. Try out these cookies and you will like them too.

Ingredients

1 18-ounce roll refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 18-ounce roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup finely chopped peanuts (optional)
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pinwheels

Directions:
1. In a large mixing bowl combine peanut butter cookie dough and flour; use a wooden spoon to mix well. Divide dough in half.

2. In another large mixing bowl combine sugar cookie dough and cocoa powder; use another wooden spoon to mix well. Divide dough in half.

3. Between pieces of waxed paper, roll out half of the peanut butter dough and half of the sugar cookie dough into 12x6-inch rectangles. Remove the top pieces of waxed paper. Invert one rectangle on top of the other; press down gently to seal. Remove top piece of waxed paper. Tightly roll up into a spiral, starting from a long side. Repeat with remaining dough portions.

4. If desired, sprinkle half of the peanuts onto waxed paper. Roll 1 log of dough in peanuts. Wrap in waxed paper or plastic wrap. Repeat with remaining dough and peanuts, if desired. Wrap and chill dough logs 1 hour or until firm enough to slice.

5. Using a sharp knife, cut dough logs into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Place slices 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.

6. Bake in a 375 degree F oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are firm. Transfer cookies to a wire rack; cool. Makes about 60 cookies.

Make-Ahead Tip: Shape logs of dough; wrap and chill up to 1 week or freeze up to 1 month. Thaw frozen dough 3 hours in refrigerator before slicing.

10-4 Willy

Dangerous Chocolate Chip Cookies

Willy loves chocolate chip cookies and ran into this recipe at Day Recipe.

Thanks to them here is a great chocolate Chip recipe

INGREDIENTS

1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 3/4 cups flour
2 eggs
4 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS

Cream together sugars and butter.
Add eggs, vanilla and mix well.
Add dry ingredients to the butter mixture except the chips and mix until well combined.
Add chocolate chips and mix just until incorporated.
Bake at 350 for approximately 10 minutes (ovens vary). Cookies should be browned around the edges but not set in the center. Let cool and when hardened remove from pan.
If you desire a thinner cookie use less flour, if you prefer a denser cookie simply increase the flour by 1/4 cup.