Sour Cream Cookies

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   Browned Butter Glaze -- (recipe follows) BROWNED BUTTER GLAZE 1/3 cup butter or margarine 2 cups powdered sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 2 tablespoons hot water (2 to 3 tablespoons) Heat oven to 375º. Beat brown sugar, sour cream, shortening, vanilla and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Stir in pecans. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched in center. Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. Spread with Browned Butter Glaze. BROWNED BUTTER GLAZE: Heat butter in 1-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring occasionally, until golden brown; remove from heat. Stir in remaining ingredients until smooth and spreadable. ____________________ Please note, if you should change this recipe it will no longer be an approved Betty Crocker® Recipe. You may notice that the nutritional information calculated by MasterCook is different from the nutritional information listed in the Betty Crocker® cookbooks. Because MasterCook and Betty Crocker® use different nutritional analysis programs and different nutrient databases, variations in results are expected. Page 202 "© General Mills, Inc. 1998." "72 Cookies" Protein; 12g Carbohydrate; 7mg Cholesterol; 39mg Sodium Other Carbohydrates For apples and spice and everything nice, try Applesauce Cookies. Substitute 3/4 cup applesauce for sour cream. Stir in 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves and 1 cup raisins with the flour. Warm-up to tropical flavor with Coconut-Sour Cream Cookies. All you do is substitute shredded coconut for the pecans. You can't work for peanuts, but you can put them in your cookies! Salted Peanut-Sour Cream Cookies are easy to make, just substitute salted peanuts for the pecans. Old-fashioned flavor can be found in Spice-Sour Cream Cookies. Mix 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves; sprinkle over cookies before baking. Omit glaze.