These are a festive cookie for the holidays: a combination of dates, chocolate and nuts. It is a soft drop cookies that you can (if desired) sprinkle with powdered sugar or top with half a cherry. Yum! I had forgotten all about these lovelies until a friend of my daughter's mentioned the recipe. I dug around in my recipe box (yes I have one!) and there it was. Time to make a batch.
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. margarine or butter
1/2 t. vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 t. baking soda
1 t. hot water
1 1/2 c. flour
1/2# dates
1/2# Hershey's chocolate bars
1/2 c. nuts
candied cherries, halved (if desired)
powdered sugar.
Cream sugar and butter or margarine. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Mix soda into water . Add to the bowl. Mix for a minute. Add flour and stir until mixed. Chop dates, nuts and chocolate rather fine and then add to cookie dough. Drop by teaspoon onto cooky sheets. If using cherries place 1/2 cherry into the middle of each cooky. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with powderd sugar when cool if desired.
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. margarine or butter
1/2 t. vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 t. baking soda
1 t. hot water
1 1/2 c. flour
1/2# dates
1/2# Hershey's chocolate bars
1/2 c. nuts
candied cherries, halved (if desired)
powdered sugar.
Cream sugar and butter or margarine. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Mix soda into water . Add to the bowl. Mix for a minute. Add flour and stir until mixed. Chop dates, nuts and chocolate rather fine and then add to cookie dough. Drop by teaspoon onto cooky sheets. If using cherries place 1/2 cherry into the middle of each cooky. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with powderd sugar when cool if desired.
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