Recipe - Best Butterscotch Cookies

COOKIES
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 One half cup Dark brown sugar
1 cup Salted butter
2 lg Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 cup Chopped walnuts
1 cup Walnut halves
2 One half cup Allpurpose flour

GLAZE
8 ounce Caramels
One fourth cup Heavy cream

Cookies: preheat oven to 300. In medium bowl, using a whisk, mix together
flour, soda and salt. Set aside. In large mixing bowl, using an electric
mixer, beat together sugar and butter. Mix to form grainy paste. Scrape
down sides of bowl when necessary. Add eggs and vanilla and beat on medium
until soft and lumpy. Add flour mixture and chopped walnuts and mix on low
just until combined. Do not overmix. Drip cookie dough by rounded
tablespoon 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Place 1 whole walnut
half in center of each cookie. Bake 25 minutes or until cookies begin to
turn brown at the edges. Transfer to a cool, flat surface.

Glaze: melt caramels with cream in small saucepan over low heat and stir
until smooth then remove from heat. Drizzle cooled cookies with glaze in
interesting patterns.
Recipe By :THE DESSERT SHOW SHOW #DS3003

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #259

Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:12:04 0400

From: Meg Antczak meginny@node1.frontiernet.net