This recipe is adapted from a collection of Christmas recipes I looked through in December. It makes cookies that taste a lot like peppermint brownies. We all like them a lot.
I made this over Christmas, and it was a good source of calories when I was up in the night with Asher. The recipe was in our local newspaper in December. I've halved it, so that it makes about five 1-cup servings (or ten 1/2 cup servings--it is very rich!).
John found this recipe in the Whole Earth Cook Book while in medical school, and used it often on chicken (as the recipe suggested). We also use it on meatballs, porkchops, spare ribs. It uses our own honey...