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Mint Surprise Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
1 c. margarine
1 c. sugar
½ c. firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten
2 T. water
1 tsp. vanilla
8 - 5 oz. boxes solid chocolate mint candy wafers
Directions:
Directions:
Sift together flour, soda and salt; set aside.
Cream together margarine and sugars. Blend in eggs, water and vanilla. Beat well. Add dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

Enclose each chocolate mint wafer in about 1 tablespoon of chilled dough. Flour hands to roll dough. This helps keep the dough from being too sticky. Place on greased baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Top with a walnut or pecan half. Bake at 375°F for 10 to 12 minutes.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
Makes 4 ½ dozen cookies.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:

This recipe makes ALOT because Phil encloses each mint in a very thin layer of dough, so we make a 1/2 recipe of dough.

HPS:

Because the dough is very sticky, It is best to make these cookies with the dough slighly cool. Warming the dough in your palm enables it to be spread completely around the wafer.

Because the dough expands a lot during baking, keep the layer around the wafer thin. Sometimes you can see the darkness of the wafer under the dough layer.

Mom and Dad would flour their hands and use a teaspoon to cut off a small amount of dough, roll it into a ball then form it around the wafer. But I find this to be too much handling.

My method is to use the wafer to cut off a portion of dough. Press the portion of dough below the wafer into a pile of flour. Then push the floured dough into the palm of my hand to flatten it out and cause it to spread beyound the wafer edge. Then wrap the dough around the entire wafer.

I like putting a small piece of pecan on top. It becomes crisp from baking. But others like the cookies to be naked.

 

 

 

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