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Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
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These are a pretty cookie on a cookie tray at Christmas time and they taste great. You might want to double this recipe as it only makes about 24 cookies.

You can put decorations on the chocolate frosting if you like but if you do, I'd stick to the chocolate sprinkles. These cookies are quite rich all by themselves.

Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

1/2 C. shortening (part butter)

add 1 square of melted unsweetened chocolate

1/2 C. brown sugar

1 egg yolk

1/2 t. vanilla

Blend well

Add:

1 C. flour

1/4 t. salt

Mix well and roll into balls. (about the size of a walnut) Dip balls in beaten egg white, roll in nuts and bake on a ungreased cookie sheet. With your thumb press in the center of each cookie.

Bake at 350°F. 10-12 minutes. Cool before frosting.

Frost with chocolate icing.

1/8 C. milk

1/4 C. white sugar

1/4 C. cocoa

1/4 C. oleo

Bring to a boil and boil 1 minute. Cool and add confectioner's sugar until desired consistency. Frost cookies where you pressed in with your thumb.