Here you go suncritter, Im posting that recipe I told you about. I was going to get around it to posting in the recipe exchange section, but I just never got around to it.
So heres the chewy pecany cookie recipe from my grandmother. And she made these at Christmas time for the most part each one (individually) wrapped in variously colored siran wraps.
Shes very specific to using an 11 inch square pan which is first crisco'd and then lined with wax paper (bring as neatly up the sides watching how your corners come together)
Crust ingredients (very simple)
1/2 cup butter
2 Tbs granulated sugar
1 cup of flour
Mix the above together then press into the prepared pan (covering just the bottom). Then bake this crust in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for just 10 minutes (during which time mix the next ingedients below). Just remember when you pull it out you to
reduce the oven's heat to 325 degrees (to rebake it along with the filling below)
Filling over top of crust (simple too)
1 1/2 cups of brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup coconut (which I
typical hate but you cant taste it in this)
1 1/4 cups coarsely chopped pecans
Mix these ingredients together pour evenly overtop of baked crust.
Before putting it in the oven she would evenly sift (over the filling) aprox. 2 teapoons of flour (for what purpose I dont know). Then she'd bake it for 45 minutes at the reduced tempt of 325 degrees.
When finished, just pull out them out, and immediately turn out onto a foiled lined cookie sheet remove wax paper and cut
With these you may need to spray a long knife with pam or something to cut them (and probrobly respray it too) because they are sticky.
So when they first come out of the oven, put another longer pan, like a cookie sheet overtop and immediately flip it over (while its hot) onto it. One good whack to the bottom of the pan releases it if it dont just fall out with the turn.
Then just peel off the wax paper from it (but while its hot) so it doesnt stick (as it cools). Be a little careful pulling the wax paper up from the corners (especially) they can be a tad trickier coming off there (perfectly).
After removing the wax paper cut them within 15 minutes of pulling them out of the oven. I make long straight cuts all going in the same direction as the other (an inch apart) to make a long cookie. Their length usually ends up being about the size of a finger. Not really important, though, whatever floats your boat.
I wait till they have cooled then I do what she did and wrap each one individually in that. Simple and really good, at least wherever they were they were the first ones to go and she could never make enough of them.
I hate writing out recipes,
copy pasting them is so much more up my alley.