Acorns

Recipe Cuisine: Cookies
Recipe Category: Cookies
Recipe Serves: 1

Recipes Ingredients:

1 c Butter, melted 2
1/2 c All-purpose flour, sifted
3/4 c Brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 ts Baking powder
1 1/2 c Pecans, chopped fine,*
1 c Semi-sweet Chocolate chips

Recipe Instructions:

* divided in 3/4 cup portions This is an easy yet elegant butter-pecan Cookie shaped to resemble an acorn and dipped in melted Chocolate chips and chopped pecans. Preheat Oven to 375ø. In a large bowl, beat together butter, brown sugar, 3/4 cup chopped pecans and vanilla on medium speed until well blended. Add flour and Baking powder and mix well, using low speed. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Slightly flatten by pressing balls onto ungreased Cookie sheets; pinch tops to point to resemble acorns. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 375ø. Remove from Oven and cool on wire racks. In top of a double boiler over simmering water, melt Chocolate chips, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat; keep double boiler over water. Dip large ends of cooled cookies into melted chocolate, then roll in chopped pecans. Cool to set chocolate. Yield: 3 dozen. Peggy Mellody, co-author, In the Chips: The Complete Chocolate Chip Cookbook (published by Rawson Associates), Los Angeles, CA Randy Shearer