I usually make Russian tea cakes, but today I decided to try something new…chocolate chip tea cakes!
Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup finely chopped nuts (I like walnuts)
2 cups (1 package) Nestle Holiday Morsels
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In large bowl, cream together butter and powdered sugar. Beat in vanilla. Gradually add flour and then nuts. Stir in 1 and 1/2 cups morsels.
Roll dough into balls 1 inch in diameter and place on tray. Bake for 10-12 minutes until cookies are set and golden brown on the bottom. Cool on tray for 2 minutes before transferring to wire rack.
You can then melt some of the reserved chips to drizzle along top of the cookies. I chose not too since they are already sweet (and I didn’t think red+green+brown would look very pretty).
Variations:
Try using different morsels or different nuts!
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