BIRD'S NEST COOKIES
by Michelle Murphy
Ingredients
½ cup butter or margarine
¼ cup brown sugar
1 egg (separated)
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts
Directions
Cream butter and sugar together.
Add egg yolk and vanilla.
Combine flour & salt... add to butter mixture.
Lightly whip the eggwhite.
Roll dough into 1" balls.
Dip each ball in eggwhite, then roll it in chopped nuts.
Bake five minutes at 350°
Remove from oven.
Make a small indention with your thumb in each cookie.
Bake for 5 more minutes.
When cool, fill the cookies
green colored icing.
Place 2 red cinnamon candies in the center.
