Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

I love these cookies. Not only do they have stunning eye appeal, they taste great too!

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 36
• Yields: 3 dozen

Ingredients

• Cookies

• 1 3⁄4 cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup  cocoa
• 1⁄2 cup shortening
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  egg
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 36  large marshmallows, cut in half (so there are two full circles, not two half circles.)

• Icing

• 2  cups powdered sugar
• 1⁄2 cup  cocoa
• 4 -6  tablespoons  hot milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Sift together flour, soda, salt and cocoa.
3. Cream shortening, sugar, egg and vanilla.
4. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with milk.
5. Form into 1 1/2 inch balls and bake on greased cookie sheet for 8-10 minutes. Press 1/2 a marshmallow onto each cookie, bake an additional 2 minutes, or until marshmallow is melted.
6. Combine frosting ingredients. Spoon frosting over each cooled cookie. (Or for a more dazzling effect, pour frosting into the corner of a ziplock bag, snip off the corner, and drizzle frosting across cookie.).