hello all,

seems every time we make these, they want to burn on the edges, all the
while the middle is uncooked and more times than not the entire cookie ends
up "flattening" (appears the cookie is melting rather than cooking) out so
far that it just turns out to be a gigantic mess in the pan. the end result
is so far from what one would expect that it seems unfathomable that we
actually followed the recipe.

it's the recipe out of the much-hailed "better homes and gardens cook
book" - we're following it EXACTLY as it is stated.

it calls from 3/4 cups of butter - doesn't say butter or margarine so we
used the real thing. for some reason we suspect the butter has something to
do with it. the results were so bad i'm not sure it's accurate to blame any
one ingrediant.

please help - my kids are losing confidence in me