Recipe - Eggnog [Or Maple] Logs

COOKIES
1 One fourth cup Sugar [or 1 cup brown sugar
and One fourth cup maple sugar]
1 cup Butter flavored crisco
[Jim sez use real butter,
always]
1 Egg
One fourth cup Light corn syrup [or
maple syrup]
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 teaspoon Rum extract [or maple
flavouring]
3 cup Flour
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt

ICING
1 cup Powdered sugar
3 tablespoon To 5 water
1 cup Toasted pecans, finely
Chopped

Beat sugar and crisco until well blended. Add egg, syrup, vanilla and rum;
beat until fluffy.

Combine flour, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt. Add to creamed mixture slowly
and at low speed until well blended. Wrap with plastic and chill several
hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 375F. and put foil on cooling surface.

Divide dough into 10 portions. Roll each into a 15" rope, then cut into 3"
logs. Place logs 2" apart on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake, one sheet at a time, about 79 minutes until lightly browned. Cool 2
minutes on sheets, remove to foil to cool completely.

Combine powdered sugar and water. Dip ends of logs into icing; roll in
pecans. Put back on foil until icing sets.

Country Accents Christmas Cookies 1995 Shared by Carolyn Shaw 1295
Posted to BakeryShoppe Digest V1 #444 by angstrom@juno.com (Angela L
Gilliland) on Dec 07, 1997