Lace Cookies

Name: Lace Cookies
Yield: Makes about 6 dozen
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 3/4 cup, dark brown sugar; 1/2 cup, light corn syrup; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 6 tablespoons, unbleached all-purpose flour, sifted; 1 cup, pecans or almonds, chopped fine; 1 tablespoon, heavy cream

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1997

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We find that the right sweeteners and the proper ratio of flour to butter create gossamer-thin, lacy wafers; three tips make them easy to get off the baking sheet.

SERVESMakes about 6 dozen

TIME2 hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We decided right off to eliminate eggs from our lace cookies recipe because they tended to "puff" the cookies, which, to our mind, should be gossamer-thin with a brittle texture. What's more, the liquid protein in eggs can get int...

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