*Oooey* Gooey* Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

These cookies date back to my childhood (or maybe even further back), and they take me back to family reunions, staying at my cousins house, Christmas time treats, and visiting my Aunt Leona.
These cookies are sooooo good!

Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

1/2 c. Baking Cocoa

1 3/4 c. Flour

1/2 tsp. Salt

1/2 tsp. Baking Soda

1/2 c. Shortening (of course I use butter flavored)

1 c. Sugar

1 Egg

1/2 c. Milk

1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

1/2 c. Walnuts, chopped (optional)

14-16 large Marshmallows, sliced in half

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream together the shortening, sugar and egg.

Add milk.

Combine the first 4 ingredients together, then stir into the shortening mixture.

Add vanilla and nuts.

(Don't panic if the shortening/milk mix looks curdled, it's ok!)

Drop by teaspoon onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper (or grease the sheets if you don't have the paper on hand).

Bake for 9 minutes.

Remove from the oven, top each cookie with one of the marshmallow halves,

and return to the oven for 3 minutes.

Cool on the cookie sheet for approx. 5 minutes.

Remove to a cooling rack. Frost the cookies while still warm.

(At this point in the cookie baking process my Aunt Leona would always prepare her own delicious chocolate frosting, but I have to admit that I take a quick short cut...)

FROSTING

1 container prepared Chocolate Frosting

1/4 c. Powdered Sugar

1/2 tsp. Vanilla Extract