Did anyone see Paula Deen's cookie show?

If so, what did you think of her family recipe for "Sand Tarts"??

Those were "Pecan Crescents" if ever I saw any.  All the "Sand Tarts" I've ever known or baked are made from sugar-cookie type dough that's rolled and cut out (or molded in a mold - I've seen those, too).  There's an egg-white wash before baking and a sugar/cinnamon mixture sprinkled on top -- the "sand."  No nuts in the dough, unless you press a sliver of almond on top before baking.

Her cookies were a shortbread-type dough with lots of chopped pecans.  She formed the cookies into fat crescents before baking and rolled them in powdered sugar afterwards.

I've never seen a "Sand Tart" like that, have you?  

 Here's the link to the recipe:

 http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/grandma-pauls-sand-tarts-recipe/index.html

So where's the "sand"??

Summer

I think you've been caught in Cookie-Baking land for too long now...

Time to step away from the MixMaster for a moment or two or three.

I've never heard of a sand tart before I saw her make them, but my mother has been making the exact same cookie for years only she shapes hers into balls instead of crescents.  They are really good!

bobswife:

Time to step away from the MixMaster

NO COOKIES FOR YOU!  

peachygirl_GA:

only she shapes hers into balls

--Yea, like a Mexican Wedding Cookie or Russian Tea Cake.  Those I've seen, and they'd be about the same dough, but in balls, not crescents (like Paula's last night).  

I swear Paula's "grandma" or whoever got her cookies mixed up.  "Sand tarts" my cinnamon!

I have seen some people around here that shape them into crescents, but we haven't.  Maybe she did get them mixed up!  LOL!  I fell asleep half way through the show last night.  But I thought the praline cookies looked really good.

Summer74:

"Sand tarts" my cinnamon!

That just tickled me something silly, Summer!

Thank you!  I missed what she called hte cookies, and was wondering why she was putting them in a sand pail with the turbinado sugar. LOL!  I could see that the recipe is one I make in balls with walnuts instead of pecans, so it made no sense at all with the buckets.

Looked like she put a couple of pounds of coarse sugar in that pail, and that stuff ain't cheap! 

I know it was auctioned for charity, but.....I wouldn't do that for everyone on my Christmas cookie list or I'd go broke.  

Summer74:

All the "Sand Tarts" I've ever known or baked are made from sugar-cookie type dough that's rolled and cut out (or molded in a mold - I've seen those, too).  There's an egg-white wash before baking and a sugar/cinnamon mixture sprinkled on top -- the "sand."  No nuts in the dough, unless you press a sliver of almond on top before baking.

I didn't see the show, but I love sandtarts made the way you described them. I do put a sliver of almond on top of the egg wash and then sprinkle witht the cinnamon sugar mixture.

I use  a dough similar to Paula's and roll mine into balls which makes a small round cookie.  We call them Pecan Sandies.

Do the same thing, Mexican wedding balls, I coat them in sugar while hot then re-coat while cool using walnuts instead of pecans. 

Summer74:

I've never seen a "Sand Tart" like that, have you?