Butter Fingers

Mama, where did a pecan sandy start

Is that a southern cookie? Your grandma, Paul, called them sand tarts

and she made those all the time. She lived in a trailer park

That's when you know you're from the south and your grandma lives in a trailer. Thank you

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mama. Hey, y'all, you know, my kids know me as a cooker man

not a baker man, but I've come to love cookies. So I'm always looking for a super delicious

easy cookie recipe, and these are Butterfingers I'm going to share with you today

They're kind of like pecan Sandys, but I shape them into fingers. So let's get started. Super easy

I'm going to put in two and a half cups of flour. Got some granulated sugar

We're going to use three quarters of a cup. Oh, gosh, did y'all see that

What? Did you see that, Mama? No, son, I didn't. Oh, good

I put sugar in the flour. Oh! Sorry. Boom! We have people that'll go through grain by grain

and take care of that for me later. I got about a cup of pecans that I chopped If you want to use some different kind of nuts you can but we love pecans We got four or five pecan trees that run down our driveway and I used to carry Jack around when he was a baby

and when he found out that there's a nut on the ground that we could crack and he could eat

plus we had to battle the squirrels for him, that was enough for him

He loved that. We'd have to try to trick the squirrels to get our nuts

So he's nutty for pecans. Ah! Where's my sign that says laugh

He's nutty for pecans. Oh! We do what we can. This is one teaspoon of real vanilla

and I've got two sticks of butter. Now, when you crank this, it's gonna be a clumpy batter

So let's get this going. It's not gonna really smooth out, because we're gonna work them out with our hands

So if this is a really smooth batter, Y'all have made a mistake at some point

And we call them butterfingers because they've got the two sticks of butter in it. Now, if you wanted to put walnuts or anything in here

you could trade it out. Now, I'm gonna make these into fingers. Remember when y'all were little boys

Yep. And we'd go visit Grandma Paul, and she'd keep them in a cookie tin

All good grandmothers should live in a trailer at some point These I remember taking my friends over there to eat You talk about cooking Mm And she had a garden in the backyard

And that's where I learned to really love to knock the dirt off my food before I ate it

That's why at our house here, my boys and I have a little piece of garden that we work with

This year, we planted blueberry bushes. We have strawberries. It's the first year that we've done strawberries

Next spring, you ought to plant potatoes, because Jack loves coming to my house

and digging for potatoes. And do you remember when you and Bobby were little

y'all would get so excited to know you were going to Granny Paul's and digging her potatoes up for her. Yeah

So this is going into the oven at 325 for about 30 minutes

And look, I've got... Oh, this oven's hot. I've got some that are done

Let's pull them out, because we're not quite done. Oh, these smell delicious

So see, they're butter fingers. Ooh. Good job, audience. So the last thing that we do, y'all

is we're going to take these and dredge them through some powdered sugar. See, aren't those nice

Yes. Now you tell you a trick that I learned when I was my son age when I just started school It always best to stay on your teacher good side And my mama can flat cook and has always cooked

So when it came to be holiday time, I would bring Buckeyes and Divinity

and things like that for my teachers. And I think sometimes that's the only thing

that got me through middle school was the desserts that I used to bring to people. I've shared this secret with Jack

So now Jack packs up desserts to take to his teachers. So if you take these little Chinese containers, they're super cute

You can drop some down in here. You can write the teacher's name on it

You can put a bow on it. Mama used to do hers in jars. If you're doing something special at the house and you've got a bunch of different kids that are coming around

you can put three or four of these in here, stick them a napkin, get you one of these markers

and let's write Jack's name on here. That way they don't fight over them

You can take this out. Oh, how cute. Have a few cookies and spend the day together

Jamie, you know you got a room full of retired school teachers out here

I'm going to bring y'all some cookies. Do you like that, girls? Yes! Thanks for tuning in

Let's call this Jamie's Cookie Corner. I'll see y'all next time. Want a cookie, Mom

Yes. Oh, I love them