Starlight Mint Cookies

Submitted to PCS by Mollie
Ingredients:

3

 cups flour

½

 teaspoon baking soda

1

 teaspoon baking powder

1

 stick butter

1

 stick margarine

1

 cup white sugar

1

 cup brown sugar

2

 eggs

2

 tablespoons water

1

 teaspoon vanilla

1½

 packages chocolate mint wafers (called UFO's at Trader Joes)

 

 pecan halves
Directions:
     

Cream butter and margarine with sugars well.

Blend in eggs, water & vanilla.

Add dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly.

Cover and refrigerate at least two hours.

When ready to bake, enclose one chocolate mint wafer in approximately 1 tablespoon dough and form a ball. Place on sprayed cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Top each cookie with pecan half, flattening slightly in the process.

Bake in 375° 12-15 minutes.

Notes:
  Produces 108-112 cookies. "By not rolling too much dough around the mint, it makes that many. By that I mean, just enough dough to barely cover the mint. I also use about a pound of the mints." Mollie
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