Chocolate Sundae Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 12 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
• 1/2 cup cherries, chopped
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1/2 large marshmallows (for each cookie)
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• confectioners' sugar
• 1 walnuts, piece (for each cookie)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 cookies:.
• 3 mix together flour, baking soda, and salt, set aside.
• 4 with your mixer, mix brown sugar and shortening.
• 5 blend in egg. beat well, then stir in 1/2 of the dry ingredients.
• 6 add marachino juice and milk.
• 7 stir in the rest of dry ingredients, and mix well.
• 8 blend in melted unsweetened chocolate (you can use the kind that are already melted, or substitute 6 t. of cocoa and 2 t. oil), chopped cherries, and chopped walnuts.
• 9 drop by spoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 10 bake for 12-15 minutes.
• 11 while cookies are baking cut large marshmallows in half.
• 12 place the cut side of the marshmallow down on hot cookies when they come out of the oven, so they will stick.
• 13 let cool.
• 14 frost cookies, then and put a nut on top.
• 15 buttercream chocolate frosting:
• 16 beat cocoa, margarine, milk and vanilla well. add in confectionary sugar to desired consistency.