Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Auntie Mary's Cookies

Auntie Mary's Cookies. No-bake chocolate cookies made with graham cracker crumbs, cocoa, and marshmallow creme are boiled on the stove top and dropped by spoonfuls onto waxed paper to set up. This is an old recipe handed down in a family for generations. Heirloom cookies, artfully packaged, are a perfect gift for family, friends, and/or prospective clients.

We serve delicious home cooked hot lunches everyday. We also have a full deli stocked with quality meat and cheeses. If you don't have time to stop into our Cafe in North Kansas City, MO, then let us deliver our bountiful box lunches or a huge meat and cheese platter. You can have Auntie Mary's Cookies using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Auntie Mary's Cookies

1. Prepare of Dough.
2. You need 1/2 cup of butter.
3. Prepare 1 cup of flour.
4. Prepare 3 of egg yolks (slightly beaten).
5. You need 2 tbs of fresh lemon juice.
6. Prepare of Filling.
7. Prepare 3 of egg whites (beaten stiff).
8. You need 1/2 cup of sugar.
9. You need 2 cups of ground pecans.

Our platters our one of the best priced in Kansas City, Mo. Aunt Mary claimed these cookies as her gift to everyone and never went without making them. This recipe is my beautiful Aunt Mary's. She is no longer with us but remember how proud she was of her special pineapple drop cookies.

Auntie Mary's Cookies step by step

1. Cut butter into flour with a pastry cutter until evenly mixed..
2. Add remaining ingredients and mix lightly with fork until the flour is moistened..
3. Gather dough together and press into a ball. Divide into 24 uniform pieces and roll each into a ball. Place in freezer until firm but not frozen..
4. While in the freezer make the filling. Beat egg whites until stiff. Gradually add sugar. Fold in ground pecans..
5. Pull out 6 balls out at a time of the freezer. Roll each piece on a flour surface into a circle about a 4-5" in diameter. * Pro tip - thinner the better..
6. Add 2 Tbs of filling onto each cookie. Spread on center 1/3 and fold sides 1/3 towards the center. Place folded side down on the baking sheet. Repeat until all the cookies are done..
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar..

She made them every year at Christmas time and lucky for me she gave me the recipe. Aunt Mary's Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, then the lemon juice. Aunt Mary's Sugar Cookies recipe by Nancy Shows, is from The Family Cookbook Project, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com.