[TyroCook]

I recently posted my recipe for Chocolate Pecan Cookies (Better Than Publix Bakery) at recipezaar.com. Since I have to post five messages before being allowed to include a URL link, you can just go to recipezaar.com and do a search for:
Chocolate Pecan Cookies (Better Than Publix Bakery).

The Publix Bakery Chocolate Pecan Cookies are really good which is probably why they sell for about a dollar apiece. After many a trial and error, my taste buds say this recipe is even better (and much less expensive, and better for you).

As a bonus, the method is much more simple and quick than most cookie recipes I've seen.

This recipe is more thorough and detailed than most, in order to help get it right and for repeatability.

Hope you enjoy as much as I do.

[Mezzaluna]

For those of you CTers outside the Southeastern US, Publix is a large grocery chain. Excluding chains like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's (or other upscale markets), in my opinion Publix is a good grocery store. I confess I haven't tasted their cookies, however, and will defer to TyroCook's and others' opinions on the cookies.

[ED BUCHANAN]

Most All Publix Bakery Products are mixes and made by other companies. Most of their cookies come frozen. They do make some of their own mix breads. I will say that this keeps all their markets as close to consistancy as you can get. They have their act together.

[Penguin]

FYI- the recipe you listed on recipezaar.com has 3 bushels of water listed as part of the ingredients for the cookies.

[TyroCook]

Originally Posted by Penguin

FYI- the recipe you listed on recipezaar.com has 3 bushels of water listed as part of the ingredients for the cookies.

I wanted to group the wet and dry ingredients under the rubrics WET INGREDIENTS and DRY INGREDIENTS. But the RecipeZaar program insists on an Amount, a Measurement, a Name, and an Ingredient for each line in the Ingredients list. So it was necessary to come up with something that served as a group heading while obviously not an actual ingredient. I mentioned this in the last line of the Recipe Description.

When I published this recipe, I wasn't sure about tryng to use those goofy headings, but thought that the intent would be obvious. Your observation makes me realize that some people may take a cursory look and deem it a frivolous recipe not worth a further look. So, I'm going to take out those confusing headings.

The main reason I decided to post this recipe was not because it is an exceptionally good-tasting cookie (which it is). It was because of the method. I found its simplicity and speed far better than the many other recipe methods I found and tried. Those with a technical background like myself would call it an 'elegant solution'. I've used a similar method for Banana Bread, but I still have to do some tweaks on that one.

I've gotten long-winded. It's the first time I've posted a recipe, so this is new to me. I must admit to a little pride of authorship, and I hope you may give the recipe a second look.