Acorn Magic Delights
photo by mliss29
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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36 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 1⁄2 cups pecans, chopped fine
- 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- Melt the butter or margarine over low heat. In a large bowl, beat together butter, brown sugar, 3/4 cup chopped pecans, and vanilla until well blended.
- Add flour and baking powder and mix well.
- Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
- Slightly flatten by pressing balls onto ungreased cookie sheets; pinch tops to point to resemble acorns.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 375 degrees F ( 190 degrees C). Remove from oven and cool on wire racks.
- In top of a double boiler melt chocolate chips, stirring until smooth.
- Remove from heat; keep chocolate warm over water in the double boiler.
- Dip large ends of cooled cookies into melted chocolate, then roll in remaining 3/4 cup chopped pecans.
- Cool to set chocolate.
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Reviews
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These are *really* good and pretty easy to make. My 3-year-old has been wanting to eat acorns, but I talked him into acorn cookies! He had a lot of fun helping with these. They don't spread out, so you can bake them pretty close together. Also, for us, 1/2 c ground pecans only covered a little more than half of the cookie tops. So we made some with just chocolate and no pecans. Yummy and cute!
