ENGLISH TOFFEE COOKIES

English Toffee Cookies 

1 cup finely chopped pecans

1-1/2 teaspoons vegetable oil

1-1/8 teaspoons salt

1 cup butter (room temperature)

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg yolk, well-beaten

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon vanilla

8  (1-1/2 -ounce) milk chocolate bars, broken in pieces

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place nuts in pie tin. Drizzle oil over nuts and sprinkle with 1/8  teaspoon salt. Mix well and bake 5 to 7 minutes.

Cream the butter, brown sugar and 1 teaspoon salt until fluffy. Add flour and yolk and combine well. Stir in vanilla.

Spread the dough evenly over a 12-by-17-inch ungreased pan with a rubber spatula. Bake on lowest shelf of oven until golden brown, about 18 to 20 minutes.

Remove from oven and immediately place the chocolate bars on top. When they begin to melt, spread the chocolate over the entire cookie.

Sprinkle the pecans evenly over the top and pat them down into the chocolate. Cut at once into small rectangles 1-by-1-1/2-inches.