Cookie Recipes

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Milky Way Peanut Butter Cookies

These cookies are delicious peanut butter cookies with a bite sized
Milky Way candy bar inside. The candy melts when baked to produce a delightfully chewy caramel, peanut butter cookie.


1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 dozen bite-sized Milky Way bars


Cream together white sugar, brown sugar, butter or margarine, vanilla, peanut butter and the egg. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

Wrap 1 heaping teaspoon of dough around a bite sized Milky Way candy bar.

Bake 13-16 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Let cool 5 minutes before removing from pan.

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Fudge-Pecan Chewies

1/4 cup butter or margarine
14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup chopped pecans
60 pecan halves


Combine first 3 ingredients in a heavy saucepan; cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate and butter melt.

Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla, flour, and chopped pecans.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Press a pecan half into the center of each cookie.

Bake at 350 degrees F. for 7 minutes. (Do not overbake.) Remove cookies to wire racks to cool

Yield: 5 dozen