Turtle Cookies (McKenzie's Bakery, N.O.LA)

Recipe Ingredients

1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Butter or margarine
1/2 cup	80g / 2.8oz	Light brown sugar - packed
1		Egg
1		Egg yolk
1		Egg white
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Vanilla
1/8 teaspoon	0.6ml	Maple flavoring
1 1/2 cups	93g / 3.3oz	All-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Salt
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Baking soda
		Pecan halves
		Frosting
2 oz	56g	Solid baking chocolate
1/4 cup	59ml	Milk
1 tablespoon	15ml	Butter
1 lb	454g / 16oz	Powdered sugar.

Recipe Instructions

Cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, egg yolk, vanilla and maple flavoring. Set aside. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda.

Add dry ingredients gradually to the creamed mixture until you have smooth dough and then chill 2 hours.

Shape 1 tsp dough into balls. These should be oval shaped like a turtle body. Dip bottoms into little of egg white.

Press slightly onto greased cookie sheet on which groups of 5 pecan halves have already been placed to form a head and 4 feet of turtles.

Bake at 350F 10 to 12 minutes or until set and when cool, frost.

FROSTING-Melt chocolate, milk and butter. Beat in the powdered sugar until smooth.

Source:
Gloria Pitzer's Secret Recipes Newsletter.

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