Turtle Cookies
Source of Recipe
Schmitty
List of Ingredients
1 cup shortening - half butter and half margarine
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pecan halves and chocolate chips
Recipe
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream shortening and sugar; beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Add sifted flour and salt. Roll teaspoons of dough into balls. Flatten out slightly and push 4 pecan halves into cookies to look like the legs of a turtle., Stick in another pecan half for the head. Bake about 12 minutes or until set.
Immediately place 4 or 5 chocolate chips on top of each cookie. When softened, spread to cover cooky. Makes about 6 dozen turtles.