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This recipe is woefully lacking in detail. After you make and refrigerate the dough, take it out of the fridge, divide into two portions, roll each into a rectangle about a 1/4 inch thick and 8 x 12 inches, spread it with the date mixture, roll it long ways like a jelly roll, wrap in wax paper, chill it again, and then slice it into pinwheels (about a 1/4 inch thick) and then bake it. Other similar recipes call for a 350° oven, so this seems a little hot.
To me, the name of this cookie evokes something made with Hershey's chocolate kisses (literal interpretation, I know), and maybe something with meringue. Instead we have a bar cookie with coconut and nuts, which seems wrong for the name. I'd call these cookies "tropical nut bars" and use pineapple jelly (do they make pineapple jelly?) and macadamia nuts.
What is star-like about these cookies? I suppose you could cut them into star shapes.
The red ink is quite festive, although apparently not water-resistant.
I'm not sure what ineffable quality the 1/2 cup of potato chips adds. Most likely, just the "that's crazy!" factor of telling people that your cookies have potato chips in them.
I don't buy into the hype.
Here's another "ball" recipe. (tee hee!) There are some similarities here to the Perkins' Vanilla Wafer Xmas Balls. They would look really nice next to each other, since the Perkins balls are white coconut and these are probably light brown. You could go really crazy with the coconut ones and use red- and green-dyed coconut.
Again, a great recipe for the ovenless.
It's completely juvenile, but the word "balls" makes me smirk. This is another recipe from the famed Perkins line.
Note to dorm dwellers and illegal squatters: no baking is required, and you can do the other melty bits on a hot plate or in the microwave.
There are some mysteries here. I can't fathom the direction, "rub together like pie." Am I misreading the directive, or just not understanding it? Also, it would be weird to mix in the flour before beating in the egg, but the brackets seem to indicate that. Then again, when you make pie dough, you mix the dry ingredients and the butter first. In that case, though, the butter is mixed in ice cold and chunky. Here, I don't know if the butter is supposed to be cold or room temp. That could make an enormous difference in the recipe outcome. The "pie" aspect of the recipe might be telling you to do the dry stuff first, but I just can't imagine how eggs would mix into it well. Finally, it's your guess as to how long to bake them for. I'm guessing maybe 8-10 minutes. Betty, you were a little skimpy on the details. I have a feeling that she read this one to my Grandmother over the phone.
Can a baker shed more light on this recipe? I'd love to make it but there are a lot of "x" factors here. I'll bet they taste like egg nog.
I'm not sure how this would resemble Santa's whiskers. Are the finely chopped cherries supposed to be the blood from where he cut himself shaving?
Cookies. With bacon.
This reminds me of McDonald's McGriddle sandwich. Take two perfectly fine food items (in this case, cookies and bacon; in McD's case, pancakes and a breakfast sandwich) and combine them in a flavor calamity that is much, much worse than the sum of its parts.
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