Recipe

I guarantee you that anyone eating these cookies will absolutely want more. (If you want to know who Auntie Teen is, you need to contact the Editor.)

Auntie Teen's Rolo Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 48 Rolos

Beat butter until it is creamy. Add cups of white and brown sugar and beat well. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well. Separately combine flour, baking soda and cocoa and gradually add to the butter mixture. Stir in 1/2 of the nuts. (Adding nuts here is optional as I only put the nuts on top of the cookies and none into the actual mix.) Cover and chill the mixture for at least 2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 375°.

Combine remaining 1/2 nuts with 1 tablespoon of white sugar.

Divide dough into 4 parts. Work 1 part at a time leaving the rest in the fridge.

Divide the part you are working with into 12 smaller parts. Quickly roll the each small dough part around a Rolo. Dip one side into the sugar/nut mixture. Place nut side up spread 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake 8 minutes. Cool sheet until the bottom of the cookies are set. (The caramel in the Rolos will come out on the bottom of the cookies.) Then place the cookies upside down on a wire rack to cool completely. (If you figure out a better way to cool them without losing the inside, let me know.)

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