Yesterday it was so cold and felt more like winter but we are still enjoying the fall so acorn cookies seemed appropriate. These are butter-pecan cookies with some chocolate and pecans for their tops.
The recipe is always misleading with baking them for about nine minutes because the entire process from beginning to end was more like three hours! ... and for the children it was FOREVER ... but they are delicious.
It was late in the afternoon and dinner to ponder when A discovered the pecan harvest that had to happen. We have been watching over those pecans closely. In years past, the pecans must have fallen in the middle of the night as the squirrel family across the yard watched carefully and made their annual journey to STEAL nearly all of them. Not this year! We have been even more vigilant and had great success for our first day. There are still many that need to fall but hopefully the squirrels will be on the short end this year.
Here is A with some of our pecan bounty that we managed to scoop up. It was freezing outside but it was worth it!
One more reason to love fall!
