Turtle cookies (mckenzie's bakery~ n.o.la)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
WALDINE VAN GEFFEN
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½ cup Butter or margarine
½ cup Light brown sugar -- packed
1 Whole egg
1 Egg yolk
1 Egg white
¼ teaspoon Vanilla
⅛ teaspoon Maple flavoring
1½ cup All-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Baking soda
Pecan halves
FROSTING-----
2 ounces Solid baking chocolate
¼ cup Milk
1 tablespoon Butter
1 pounds Powdered sugar.

Directions

Cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, egg yolk, vanilla and maple flavoring. Set aside. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Add dry ingredients gradually to the creamed mixture until you have smooth dough and then chill 2 hours. Shape 1 ts dough into balls. These should be oval shaped like a turtle body. Dip bottoms into little of egg white. Press slightly onto greased cookie sheet on which groups of 5 pecan halves have already been placed to form a head and 4 feet of turtles. Bake at 350~ 10 to 12 minutes or until set and when cool, frost. FROSTING-Melt chocolate, milk and butter. Beat in the powdered sugar until smooth. Source: Gloria Pitzer's Secret Recipes Newsletter. (MY NOTE-I hope these are as good as the real thing.)

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