Chewy Brownie Cookies

Total Time: 22 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 36
• 1 1/3 cups golden crisco (or your fave shortening)
• 1 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 2 large eggs, slightly beaten
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 1/2 cups large broken pecans or 1 1/2 cups walnut pieces
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180°c (350°f).
• 2 combine crisco, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in a large bowl.
• 3 beat with mixer on low speed 1 minute or until creamy.
• 4 add beaten eggs.
• 5 combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
• 6 add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating on low speed about 1 minute, or just until blended.
• 7 stir in nuts and chocolate chips.
• 8 drop by heaping spoonfuls* (about 2 tbsp for each cookie) on ungreased cookie sheet.
• 9 bake cookies, leaving about 7cm (3-inches) between cookies for spreading.
• 10 bake at 180°c (350°f) for 10-12 minutes.
• 11 cookies wil appear soft and moist when baked, but firm upon cooling.
• 12 cool 2 minutes, then remove to cooling rack.
• 13 *smallercookies can be made using 15ml (1 tbsp) dough for each cookie; bake 8-10 minutes; makes about 6 dozen cookies.