Cream Cheese Cookies II

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1 cup butter 
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar 
• 8 ounce cream cheese 
• 2  eggs 
• 3.5 cups flour all-purpose
• 1 cup brown sugar light packed
• 1 cup pecans chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 1 cup sugar white

Equipment

• baking sheet
• oven

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Cream together white and brown sugars, butter or margarine, eggs, baking soda, salt, and vanilla. Spoon in flour and mix well.
3. Mix in 1 cup chopped pecans.
4. Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheets.
5. Bake 8 to 10 minutes.
6. Let cookies cool, then place filling on one cookie and put together like a sandwich.
7. Mix together cream cheese, confectioner's sugar and 1 cup chopped pecans (optional).
8. Spread on cooled cookies.