Date Nut Crunch Balls - Mama's Christmas Recipe

8 oz pitted dates (buy chopped and dusted in sugar)
1 cup brown sugar
1 stick margarine
2 cups rice crispies
1/2 cup nuts (use favorite type like pecans)
1/2 cup coconut

Mix dates, brown sugar and margarine in pan over low heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add rice crispies, nuts and coconut. Stir until well mixed. When cool enough to handle, roll into balls and drop in pan with powdered sugar and set aside.

(Rods favorite, Not Cliftons Favorite)

Glamour Cookies (or Cranberry and White Chocolate Christmas Cookies)

1c all-purpose flour
½ cup super fine sugar
½ tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 cup rolled oats
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 stick plus 1 tbsp soft butter
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup dark brown sugar
½ cup roughly chopped pecans
¾ cup white-chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, baking powder and oats in a bowl.
In another bowl, beat together butter and sugars with an electric mixer until creamy.
Add egg and vanilla.
Beat in dry ingredients.
Fold in cranberries, pecans and chips.
Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into balls and place on a baking sheet lined with tinfoil.
Flatten each ball with a fork.
Bake for 15 minutes or until pale gold.
Let cool on a rack.
Drizzle cookies with melted white-chocolate.
Makes 3 dozen.

Nat's tips:
Cookies tend to take less than 15 minutes--usually between 11-13
minutes. They seem to keep baking on the foil but you can't move them
off the foil for a few minutes so better to pull them out a tad undone.
I used cherry crasions.
I buy extra white chocolate chips for the melting and drizzling.
I usually double the recipe.

(I have not made this recipe yet but just saved it here so I could try it one day. Thanks Natalie for sharing on facebook!)