Cuckoo Cookies

Total Time: 19 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 9 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 72
• 1 cup shortening
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1 cup milk
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 36 marshmallows, cut in half
• 36 walnut halves (optional)
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 3 tablespoons cocoa
• 4 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350*.
• 2 cookies:.
• 3 cream shortening and sugar.
• 4 add eggs, mixing well.
• 5 stir in milk.
• 6 (is going to be very runny, careful!:).
• 7 add soda, salt, vanilla, cocoa, and flour.
• 8 mix well.
• 9 **just a heads up** this dough is very soft.
• 10 almost sticky even.
• 11 but i didn't add more flour, i left the recipe as it was.
• 12 drop slightly heaping teaspoonfuls onto a sprayed cookie sheet.
• 13 (i did 12 to a sheet and they didn't spread out and touch each other).
• 14 bake for 6 minutes.
• 15 take out of the oven and top each cookie with 1 marshmallow half, cut side down.
• 16 return to oven, bake an additional 3 minutes.
• 17 ***ifyou wanted to add a walnut half, i would do it at this point, stick it right into the soft marshmallow***.
• 18 marshmallow will be puffy, but will fall a bit after being out of the oven awhile.
• 19 cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute before removing to cookie rack to finish cooling.
• 20 frosting:.
• 21 mix all ingredients well.
• 22 take a small spoon, a teaspoon would be plenty, scoop up some frosting and drizzle over cookies.
• 23 the recipe says to spread cookies with frosting.
• 24 no way!
• 25 it rips the marshmallow all up and looks awful.
• 26 so, i added a bit more milk than the original recipe called for, to make the frosting more like a glaze so it would look nicer.