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How to Make Toothpaste Cookies
Don't be put off by the name of these delicious sweets. They are some of the best cookies you will ever taste in your life! Even though they are blue, there isn't really any toothpaste in them.

Ingredients
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar (white)
2 tsp water
2 tsp vanilla
2 cup flour
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cup confectioner's sugar
2 tbsp softened butter
1 1/2 to 2 1/2 tbsp milk
Blue food coloring

Steps:
In a medium bowl, combine 1 cup butter and 1/2 cup sugar. The mixture should be creamy. Feel free to taste it with your finger.
Add 2 cups flour to the creamy mixture. Make sure you add the flour slowly, so it mixes well.
In quick succession, add the water, vanilla, and pecans to the mixture. If you thought it tasted great before, try it now!
Knead the dough into long strips two inches wide.
Wrap the dough "snakes" in wax paper and refrigerate for 3-4 hours. This is a great time to watch a movie.
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F. The movie should be over now and the cookies ready for baking.
Cut the "dough snakes" into little two by two inch squares.
Place the dough squares on a thoroughly greased pan and make shallow thumb impressions in the center of each square. Most recipes tell you not to grease the pan and the cookies always stick. Lather that pan up with grease!
Bake for twenty minutes. Now it's time to make the icing.
Sift the confectioner's sugar into a mixing bowl.
Beat the confectioner's sugar with the 2 tbsp. softened butter and milk. Ok, I know I've said this before, but you just have to try this concoction!
Add the blue food coloring. Two or three drops will do, depending on how dark of a blue you want. The cookies get their name from the blue icing. It will look a lot like toothpaste.
Cool the cookies. If you put the icing on before the cookies are completely cool, it will melt. To let them cool, another Paul Thomas Anderson movie would be a good idea.
Splat a bit of icing on the thumbprint impression.
Serve and enjoy!

Tips
* Do not tell people the name of these cookies before they eat them.
* Make sure you have all of the ingredients before you start baking.