Schrafft'S Butterscotch Cookies
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup Crisco, at room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk powder
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for shaping
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease cookie sheets.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter and shortening for a few seconds. Add sugar and beat until creamy. Beat in egg, dry milk, and vanilla until light.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer running, slowly add flour mixture to butter mixture. Fold in pecans.
- Drop heaping tablespoons of batter onto prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Lightly flour your fingers and press each piece of batter into a 3-inch circle.
- Transfer to oven and bake until lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
unsalted butter, brown sugar, egg, nonfat dry milk, vanilla, allpurpose flour, baking soda, salt, pecans
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/schraffts-butterscotch-cookies-386967 (may not work)