Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

• FOR THE COOKIES:
• 1/2 cups Shortening
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 whole Egg
• 1/2 cups Milk
• 1/2 cups Baking Cocoa
• 1-3/4 cup Flour
• 1/2 teaspoons Salt
• 1/2 teaspoons Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 cups Walnuts, Chopped (optional)
• 16 whole Large Marshmallows, Cut In Half
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• FOR THE FROSTING:
• 1 container Prepared Chocolate Frosting (16 Ounce Tub)
• 1/4 cups Powdered Sugar
• 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cream together the shortening, sugar and egg. Add milk.
3. Combine the next 4 (dry) ingredients together, then stir into the shortening mixture. Add vanilla and nuts. Drop by teaspoon onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper (or grease the sheets if you don't have the paper on hand). Bake for 9 minutes.
4. Remove from the oven, top each cookie with one of the marshmallow halves, and return to the oven for 3 minutes.
5. Cool on the cookie sheet for approximately 5 minutes.
6. Remove to a cooling rack. Frost the cookies while still warm.
7. (At this point in the cookie baking process you can prepare your own favorite chocolate frosting recipe, but I have to admit that I take a quick short cut...)
8. FROSTING
9. In a medium bowl combine the frosting, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Mix well and spread onto the cookies.
10. ~This was a great tip I got from the Food Networks Sandra Lee. It saves time, and tastes homemade.~

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Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/chocolate-marshmallow-cookies/ (may not work)