Acorn Magic Delights

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Ingredients:

Yield: 36 cookies

• 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:

1. 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.
2. Add flour and baking powder and mix well.
3. Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
4. Slightly flatten by pressing balls onto ungreased cookie sheets; pinch tops to point to resemble acorns.
5. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 375 degrees F ( 190 degrees C). Remove from oven and cool on wire racks.
6. In top of a double boiler melt chocolate chips, stirring until smooth.
7. Remove from heat; keep chocolate warm over water in the double boiler.
8. Dip large ends of cooled cookies into melted chocolate, then roll in remaining 3/4 cup chopped pecans.
9. Cool to set chocolate.

Reviews

[mliss29]

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!