Chocolate Half Moon Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup margarine
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 ounces baking chocolate, melted
• 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cup shortening, melted (*note: you can use butter if you like, but it will turn the frosting slightly yellow.)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• milk
• 2 ounces baking chocolate, melted

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 cream brown sugar and margarine together; stir in 2 oz melted chocolate.
• 3 beat in egg then add milk alternately with flour, baking soda, and salt; stir in vanilla.
• 4 drop by heaping tablespoons onto lightly-greased cookie sheet, spreading batter slightly.
• 5 bake in 350 degree oven for 10 minutes, let them set for 5 minutes on the cookie sheets; then remove the cookies from the cookie sheets and place inverted on a cooling rack.
• 6 combine four cups sifted confectioners sugar with one-half cup melted shortening; add one teaspoon vanilla and enough milk to make a spreadable consistency.
• 7 note: frost the bottom of the cookies, not the top!
• 8 separate the frosting into two equal portions.
• 9 add two ounces melted chocolate to one portion and stir well.
• 10 carefully spread frosting on half the bottom of each cookie, then the other half with chocolate frosting (try to keep them from overlapping, instead let them meet together).
• 11 these are good cookies for graduation parties, too, because you can omit the chocolate from both the cookie and the frosting and use icing-colorings to make the frosting the school colors!