1 c. butter or margarine 3 c. sifted flour
1 c. sugar 1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 c. brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 tsp. salt
2 eggs 12 oz. chocolate mint wafers*
2 tbsp. water Walnut halves or pecan halves
1 tbsp. vanilla
Cream butter and white and brown sugar. Blend in eggs, water and vanilla. Mix well. Sift flour, baking soda and salt. Add and mix thoroughly. Cover and chill at least two hours.
Enclose each wafer in about 1 tablespoon of chilled dough.** Place on greased baking sheet about 2" apart. Top each cookie with walnut half (or pecan half). Bake at 375 deg. 10-12 minutes, or until light golden brown.
** This dough is quite soft and may be sticky. If so, keep a small dish of flour on the counter and drop each tablespoon of dough into it first; shake all excess flour off and proceed to mold cookies. If you want cookies uniform in shape and size, immediately upon removing from oven cut with small round biscuit cutter (2" size). Let cool on wire rack.
* Chocolate Mint Wafers are thin solid chocolate pieces flavored with mint. Can use mint chocolate chips.