Acorn Cookies

The Christmas Cookie Project

Day 2

Acorn Cookies

Everyone who knows me knows that I am pretty cheap! I don't like to waste stuff and I love to save money so today's recipe uses a lot of leftover ingredients from yesterday's recipe. It uses the same sugar cookie dough, pecans and caramel. It was actually a boo-boo recipe but turned out to be pretty cute and super tasty! I was trying to make what I intended to call "Southern Belles" and they would be cute little bell shaped pecan sugar cookies but I didn't use the recipe for cut out cookies and the results looked nothing like bells. I am SO not the kind of girl to throw away a cookie just because it is ugly, so I decided to "make it work" in the words of the wise and wonderful Tim Gunn from Project Runway. I flipped those bells upside down, dipped them in caramel and make yummy fall acorns!



1 batch sugar cookie dough
(1 small tube of refrigerated dough or enough to make about 24 cookies)


1/2 cup chopped pecans


1 bottle caramel syrup (or caramel sauce)


bell shaped cookie cutter


1 large baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray (with flour)

pre-heat oven to 350

mixed chopped nuts into the sugar cookie dough

prepare according to the package directions for cut out cookies

cut with bell shaped cookie cutters

place on pan and bake until cookies have started to brown

remove from pan and let cool

dip the wide end of the cookie into a shallow bowl of caramel 

Enjoy...........cause Christmas calories don't count!! 

ALTERNATE IDEA: 

Leave the pecans out the dough recipe and sprinkle them on the caramel!