Have you ever made Lace Cookies? I had not, but I found a recipe that I thought would be fairly easy to do. It was called Milk Chocolate Florentine Cookies. I tried it, but Sam and I both thought the milk chocolate and vanilla was too mild a flavor. So I made a second batch using almond flavoring and semisweet chocolate. We liked them better. Then I found another recipe called Irish Lace Cookies which called for bittersweet or semisweet chocolate and almond flavoring. We both thought these were the best but they had ingredients most people would not have readily available-- bitter sweet chocolate and Grand Marnier. In case you are wondering what that is, it is an orange flavored liqueur. Another thing I found was the hotter the oven the lacier the cookies. I liked the oven about 360 - 365 degrees instead of 350 or 375. (P.S.) orange zest is the grated peel of the orange.)

Irish Lace Cookies

½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp almond extract
2 T. flour
1 cup quick oats
¼ tsp salt

Filling:

1 ½ cups semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips
1 T. butter
2 T. orange zest
1 T. Grand Marnier

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and almond extract, mixing well. Add flour, salt and oats. Line baking sheet with aluminum foil. Use a melon baller and drop dough by ½ teaspoonful onto foil. (Use only this small amount as dough will spread to give a lacy effect in finished cookie.) Place 6-8 cookies on sheet (never more as they spread into each other). Bake in 350 degree oven (see above note.) for 5-8 minutes or until lightly brown on edges. Slide foil off sheet and completely cool cookies before removing from the foil. (If they resist at all, they are not completely cool.)

For filling: In the top of a double boiler or in a microwave at medium power, melt chocolate and butter. Spread mixture on the flat side of one cookies and sandwich with a second. This were fun to do and went fairly quickly. Enjoy!!