Starlight Mint Surprise Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3 1/4 cups sifted pillsbury's best enriched flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup crisco
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (9 1/2 ounce) package andes mints candies
• walnut halves

Recipe

• 1 sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
• 2 cream together the butter and crisco.
• 3 add sugars and mix well. add unbeaten eggs, water and vanilla and mix well.
• 4 blend in the dry ingredients and mix well.
• 5 chill dough.
• 6 open and unwrap the chocolate mint wafers (eight o'clock or andres)
• 7 enclose each wafer in about 1 tablespoon of dough and top each cookie with a walnut half.
• 8 place on ungreased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
• 9 bake in moderate oven (recipe says 375°)for 10-12 minutes. you might consider a moderate oven to be 350°.