Pretty good recipe. Small footnotes: the mexican vanilla is not essential, and for me, being a professional chef, I substitute a different shortening, and add butter extract...the shortening I choose to utilize is called Bake Rite...it is an animal fat based shortening, and it is available @ wal-mart. the difference in amazing. and to the reviewer who complained that they turn out flat...if you look at the picture....it shows nothing that would lead me to believe otherwise...they are supposed to be a flatter cookie...good recipe Nicole...Kudos

Reviewed On: Oct. 2, 2009