Filled cookies

1 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
2cupsBrown sugar; light - packed
teaspoonSalt
1cupShortening; 1/2 butter/ 1/2 vegetable)
3eachesEggs
4cupsFlour
1teaspoonBaking soda; level
2teaspoonsVanilla
Filling:
1cupBrown sugar; light - packed
1cupWater
1tablespoonFlour
1cupNuts; chopped
cupRaisins; ground
1tablespoonLemon juice

Directions

Dough: Cream sugar, salt and shortening. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

Sift together dry ingredients. Add to creamed mixture. Filling: Mix sugar and flour. Stir in water slowly. Add nuts and raisins. Cook until slightly thickened. Cool Assembly: Take two rounds of unbaked cookie dough and put a spoonful of filling in center of one cookie and put the second on top of the bottom one. Bake 350 F. about 12 to 15 minutes.

Source: Louise Whims, Bedford, OH