#230 - Chewy Brownie Cookies

(by Shirley McNevich)

2/3 cup Crisco
1 1/2 cups firmly packed Domino's dark brown sugar
1 TBSP cold tap water
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/3 cup Hershey's cocoa
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 - 12oz. package Nestle's 12 oz. chocolate bits

In a mixer on medium speed, combine Crisco, brown sugar, water, and vanilla. Add the eggs and mix well. Add baking soda, salt, cocoa and slowly add flour. Mix at low speed until blended. Remove from mixer and stir in chocolate bits with a spoon. Drop teaspoonsful on greased cookie sheets and bake at 375 degrees for 7-9 minutes or until cookies are set--ONLY bake one sheet of cookies at a time and do not overbake. After removing cookie sheet from oven, allow cookies to cool a few minutes before removing them.

#210 - Lemon Rounds

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 cup butter
1/2 cup sifted Domino's powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. grated lemon peel
1 TBSP lemon juice
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup chopped pecans

In a mixer, combine butter, sugar and vanilla. Add lemon peel, lemon juice, then beat. Slowly add in flour--mix well. Shape the dough into balls using one teaspoonful for each cookie. Dip one side of each ball in the chopped nuts. Place the cookies on a greased cookie sheet (nut side up). Flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass. Bake at 350 degrees for 22-25 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. Drizzle each cookie with the following glaze - 1 cup sifted powdered sugar, 3-4 tsp. of lemon juice--stir by hand in a bowl--should have a runny consistency.

#206 - Russian Tea Cookies

(by Hannah Garman - friend)

1 cup butter
1/2 cup Domino's powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup chopped nuts
extra powdered sugar to roll cookies in

In a mixer on low, combine butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Add flour, salt and nuts--beat slowly. Drop teaspoonsful on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. After removing from oven, let them cool to the touch. Put powdered sugar in a small bowl and roll each cookie with sugar.