Grandma Plank's Graham Cracker Cookies (Recipe with Pictures)

When I was really young, our family would drive to Gettysburg once a month to visit my dad's mother. I only remember a few things from those trips, like getting candy at the corner drug store, eating brunch at the "Dutch Pantry", and playing at Devil's Den. And eating these extremely unhealthy, but wonderfully sweet cookies.

I got this recipe from my sister Terry, who probably got it from mom. They are called "Mrs. Allbig's Candies." The recipe here uses twice the original number of graham crackers, so that it's a little less unhealthy. You can adjust to your taste. It makes a little more than a cookie tin's worth of cookies.

Ingredients


The Ingredients -- those pans are 9x13.

Directions

In two 9x11 or 9x13 pans, lay out 12 squares each of graham crackers. You can overlap them if you want, or not. Preheat the oven to 325.

Melt the butter in a saucepan, and add the sugar. Bring it to a boil for two minutes.


The butter is melted, and the brown sugar added.


After a while, it is all mixed together.


Boiling.

Now dump the liquid over the graham crackers, and spread it to cover. Sprinkle the pecans on top.


After dumping.


After spreading.


After sprinkling.

Bake for 10 minutes. Remove to wax paper, and break up the squares into rectangles or smaller if you want. Let cool and store.


After baking and spreading.


The final pieces on wax paper.

If you use two pans, you may want to stagger the cooking of the two by five minutes or so. The reason is that if you get the pans under water quickly, they are easier to clean. If you stagger them, you can spread one batch, then clean the pan while it's easy to clean, then spread the second batch.