BABY RUTH COOKIES: Retro Ad & Recipe

I love Baby Ruth Candy Bars. Baby Ruth is a candy bar made of peanuts, caramel, and chocolate-flavored nougat covered in compound chocolate. For today's post, how about making a batch of Baby Ruth Cookies? This Retro Ad recommends them!

Polly wants a cookie made with Baby Ruth Candy!

BABY RUTH COOKIES

Ingredients
2 (1 cup) sticks butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
5 Baby Ruth candy bars, cut up

Directions
Cream together softened butter and sugar. Beat in eggs. Add soda, salt, vanilla, and flour. Fold in chopped candy bars. Drop teaspoon size dough on un-greased baking sheet 1 1/2 inches apart.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees.
Makes about 6 dozen cookies.