I found two new recipes for Christmas treats this year. One is ridiculous and the other is sublime. *S*
The sublime cookie is a shortbread based treat. You make shortbread from scratch. The recipe makes 48 triangles of shortbread. We discussed it, and feel that we could actually get more cookies from the recipe because it makes such a big cookie.
When the shortbread has cooled, you finely chop pecans, melt 24 caramels, and in a separate bowl melt half a cup chocolate chips with two teaspoons shortening. For each cookie, you dip one side in the caramel, and then in the nuts. When you've finished that step, you drizzle the chocolate over the cookies, and chill to set the chocolate. It's a lot of work, but it makes a lot of cookies. They look and taste wonderful. The hardest part is melting the caramel.
My family says they've heard the other recipe called "Haystacks." You melt chocolate chips and mix them with chow mien noodles and peanuts. It sounds odd, but tastes great!
Chocolate and nuts, how can you go wrong??
