Aunt gisele's caramel cookies

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ pounds Butter
2 Egg yolks
1 cup Sugar
Scant 1/4 teaspoon ground
Cinnamon
2 cups Unsifted flour
½ pounds Sliced blanched almonds
¾ cup Sugar
6 tablespoons Butter
3 tablespoons Honey
3 tablespoons Milk

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 15½ by 10 ½ by 1-inch jelly roll pan; set aside.

Combine the butter, yolks, sugar, cinnamon and flour and mix until you form a cohesive ball of dough. Spread the dough onto the prepared jelly roll pan and bake for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile cook the almonds, sugar, butter, honey and milk, stirring on occasion, until the mixture is light golden.

Remove baked dough; spread almonds mixture over the top and bake for 15 to 20 minutes longer until dark golden. Cool and cut into squares or rectangles (be sure to cut the cookies before they turn too hard.) Yield: 6 dozen, depending on how you cut them COOKING MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW #MF6757

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