Ingredients:
3 1/4 cups sifted pillsbury’s best enriched flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 (9 1/2 ounce) packages Andes mints candies
walnut halves
Directions:
Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
Cream together the butter and Crisco.
Add sugars and mix well. Add unbeaten eggs, water and vanilla and mix well.
Blend in the dry ingredients and mix well.
Chill dough.
Open and unwrap the chocolate mint wafers (Eight O’Clock or Andres)
Enclose each wafer in about 1 Tablespoon of dough and top each cookie with a walnut half.
Place on ungreased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
Bake in moderate oven (recipe says 375F)for 10-12 minutes. You might consider a moderate oven to be 350F.
Servings: Serve
Time preparation: 15 min.
Time total: 25 min.