Here you go May! Heath Bar Cookies Ingredients 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 1/2 cups chopped Heath Bar pieces (Eight 1.4 ounce bars) 1/2 cup chopped walnuts Method Heath Bars are popular American chocolate-covered-toffee candy bars. Heath Bar toffee bits are often available in the baking section of grocery stores. Either chopped up candy bars or the bits can be used for this recipe. The bars have chocolate, the bits don't. 1 Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda. Set aside. In a separate bowl, combine Heath Bar pieces and chopped walnuts. Set aside. 2 Cream butter until fluffy. Add the sugar and continue to beat until light and fluffy (a couple minutes). Beat in eggs one at a time, and vanilla. 3 Alternatively mix in the Heath Bar mixture and the flour mixture, a third at a time, until well blended. Chill cookie dough for at least 30 minutes (better an hour). 4 Preheat oven to 350°F. On cookie sheets lined with parchment paper or Silpat, spoon out the cookie dough in small 1-inch diameter balls (size of a large marble). Place dough balls 3 inches away from each other on the cookie sheets. (Make sure there is plenty of room between the cookie balls, and that the cookie balls aren't too big. These cookies spread!) 5 Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the edges are just starting to brown. Remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes. Then transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. Makes about 6 dozen cookies.

Pattico ~ I made some of those a week and a half ago to take to work. They are lucious. I've also used pretzels and Spanish peanuts. Connie ~ I think you and I have the same recipe. I have my recipe card out to make some of them this week for company we are having this weekend. I hope I don't eat all of them before then. Linda

linda - the cookies are much, much thicker than your standard chocolate chip cookie. Starting with 1-1/4" rolled balls of dough, they rarely get much flatter than half that height. Because the dough is so dense, I guess they just take longer bake. I've made over 50 different cookie recipes and they all bake for exactly the amount of time specified. I checked the oven temperature with two different thermometers and it's spot on at 350 degrees.

Thank you, everyone!! Colleen, I'd love that recipe. It isn't surprising, I guess, that the kids were eating chocolate chip and several of the "elders", by which I mean even older than me, were dunking those cinnamon snaps in coffee. It's kind of a classic, I think, whereas the kids go straight for the "sweet". Writersblock, I haven't had beef processed yet, so I had extra empty freezer room for cookies! Timing was good, because in a couple of weeks the freezers will be full again. Peppi, I also had the job of cooking pasta. I cooked some ahead and refrigerated it, then just gave it a "dunk" for a minute in boiling water to heat it up. The sauce was kept warm in electric roasters and I cooked pasta throughout the event, so it was only when the servers were low and the fresh pasta wasn't quite done that we used the stuff I cooked ahead. Add some fresh hot sauce and the pasta was heated nicely. I had my "dream team" serving, three of the local police officers. One served the spaghetti and each of the other two had sauce, one with meat and one without. Parmesan cheese in shakers at the end of the line and the cookies and drinks were in one corner, the salad in another, so we didn't have people lining up at a single station, they were spread out and "serve yourself" so while some people were getting coffee or cookies, others were having salad while others were getting pasta and garlic bread. There was a bake sale and a silent auction simultaneously in different rooms of the church. It actually worked pretty well, I was pleasantly surprised. All the food was donated, so the sauce came in big containers from two local restaurants, already prepared. We just added meat to half and heated it in the roasters, but we had to brown the ground beef first, which doesn't really take long and we also did that ahead so it was ready to heat. LindaC, I didn't measure it all in pounds, but I used 4 pounds of butter, 19 cups of flour, 9 cups of oatmeal, 7 cups of white sugar and 9 1/2 cups of brown sugar, plus chocolate and butterscotch chips and various "other" condiments. I'll post the recipes on separate threads, so they're easier to find. Without figuring in my time, just the ingredients alone plus the electricity to bake them, I figure they cost about 6 cents per cookie and I'll never be able to buy one of those $3 cookies at a bakery again without thinking about that. (sigh) Mustangs, it's only about 40 dozen, so if you baked a dozen a year for the past 40 years, you've made it. (grin) I'm sure, somehow, that BeauLily has talked you into baking several dozen at least! Nothing hurts today except the muscle that runs up the back of my left leg. I know for sure I didn't "work my butt off" because it kind of hurts so I know it's still there, LOL. Annie