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      Title: Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies
 Categories: Cookies, Chocolate
      Yield: 1 servings
 
  1 3/4 c  Flour
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Baking powder
    1/2 c  Shortening
      1 c  Sugar
      1    Egg
      1 ts Vanilla extract
    1/4 c  Milk
     18 lg Marshmallows; halved
     36    Pecan halves; if desired
      2 c  Confectioners' sugar
      5 tb Cocoa powder
    1/8 ts Salt
      3 tb Butter or margarine;
           -softened
      4 tb Light cream; (4 to 5)
 
      Sift together first 4 ingredients. Set aside. In mixing
  bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add egg, vanilla and
  milk. Add flour mixture and mix well. Drop by heaping
  teaspoonfuls about 2" apart onto greased cookie sheets.
  Bake at 350 for 8 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Remove cookies
  from oven, and top each with a marshmallow half. Return to
  oven for 2 minutes. Place cookies on wire racks to cool.
     Meanwhile, beat last 5 ingredients together. Spread on
  each cookie, and top with a pecan half, if desired.
  Makes 3 dozen cookies.  By Anne Calder, Kenosha, WI
  Gramma/Helen
 
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