Turtle Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg, divided
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
pecan halves

Preparation

Sift together dry ingredients.
Cream butter and brown sugar; add egg yolk.
Blend in vanilla and mix well.
Gradually add dry ingredients and blend.
Arrange pecans in groups of 3 on greased cookie sheet (1 for the head and 2 for the flippers).
Mold dough into balls and dip bottoms in unbeaten egg white.
Place on the pecans as the turtle body.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Cool.
Frost with chocolate frosting (your favorite recipe or canned).