Praline Cookies

from Private Collection: Recipes from the Junior League of Palo Alto
via Jane Scribner and Sisi Damner

makes 3 to 4 dozen

3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
5 tablespoons flour
1 cup pecan halves
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine butter and sugar. Mix in remaining ingredients well. Line a cookie sheet with Silpat or thoroughly grease it and coat with flour, recoating it before each baking. Drop batter by scant teaspoonfuls, 5 inches apart, including a pecan half each time. Bake 8 to 10 minutes.

After cookies are baked, wait 1 minute but no longer, before removing them with a spatula to a rack to cool. If they stick, briefly rewarm on the cookie sheet.

These work as fancy, impressive cookies when one needs a “party” cookie. They are delicate, though, and may not travel well.