Breakfast Cookies

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 36
• 1 cup prunes, regular or 1 cup seedless prune
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, room temperature
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup hot water
• 1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee
• 1 1/2 tablespoons hot water
• 3 tablespoons softened butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 grease a cookie sheet or spray with non-stick vegetable spray.
• 3 soak the prunes in hot water for 1 hour.
• 4 drain and chop (and remove pits if they are not seedless).
• 5 set aside.
• 6 in a bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, egg and vanilla.
• 7 sift the flour, salt and baking soda together and combine with the butter and sugar mixture.
• 8 blend and stir in the oatmeal, prunes and pecans.
• 9 drop by rounded teaspoons the cookie sheet and bake for about 15 minutes or until light brown.
• 10 cool on a wire rack.
• 11 frost with the coffee icing.
• 12 for the icing: dissolve the instant coffee in the hot water and then add the soft butter and vanilla.
• 13 sift the powdered sugar and mix until smooth.