Starlight Mint Surprise Cookies
- 3 1/4 cups sifted pillsbury's best enriched flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup Crisco
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 (9 1/2 ounce) package Andes mints candies
- walnut halves
- Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and Crisco.
- Add sugars and mix well. Add unbeaten eggs, water and vanilla and mix well.
- Blend in the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Chill dough.
- Open and unwrap the chocolate mint wafers (Eight O'Clock or Andres)
- Enclose each wafer in about 1 Tablespoon of dough and top each cookie with a walnut half.
- Place on ungreased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake in moderate oven (recipe says 375u0b0)for 10-12 minutes. You might consider a moderate oven to be 350u0b0.
flour, baking soda, salt, butter, crisco, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, water, vanilla, walnut halves
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/starlight-mint-surprise-cookies-143064 (may not work)