I love cookbooks and I have acquired quite a collection of them over the years but unfortunately, I don't get them out and look through then very often anymore. It's just so much quicker and easier to search for recipes on the computer instead. A few weeks ago, my daughter and I decided to pull all of the cookie cookbooks off of the shelf in search of new recipes. As we leafed through page after page of cookie recipes we used post it notes to tag the ones that we wanted to make over the next couple of months. We ended up tagging far more recipes than we will ever have the chance to make. How could we pass up any recipe with the word "buttery" or "chocolate" in the title? One of the cookbooks that we scanned through was one that I had received as a Christmas gift one year from my neighbor when I lived in Pennsylvania. The name of the book is Favorite Brand Name Cookie Recipes. It has all kinds of interesting cookie creations from Hershey's Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies to Smucker's Grandmother's Jelly Cookies. This particular book had over 15 post it notes sticking out of the top of it by the time we had finished but there was 1 recipe from the book that we made almost immediately.
Heath Bar Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
8 ounces Heath Bits
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 ounce melted chocolate
Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter with brown sugar, egg yolk and vanilla.
Stir in flour, nuts and Heath bits.
Press into an ungreased 10x15 inch pan.
Bake 18 minutes at 350. Cool.
Drizzle with melted chocolate.
Cut into squares.
If you like Heath Bar candy bars, you will appreciate these cookies. They are light and buttery and loaded with candy bar bits. The drizzle of chocolate just puts them over the top and makes them absolutely irresistible.
I hope that cookbooks don't become a thing of the past. There's something special about taking an old cookbook off of the shelf, dusting it off and finding a treasured recipe inside.
Ciao!
Heath Bar Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
8 ounces Heath Bits
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 ounce melted chocolate
Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter with brown sugar, egg yolk and vanilla. Stir in flour, nuts and Heath bits. Press into an ungreased 10x15 inch pan. Bake 18 minutes at 350. Cool. Drizzle with melted chocolate. Cut into squares.
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