Chocolate Bonbon Cookies

Serves:

Ingredients:

3/4 c Powdered sugar
1 c Powdered sugar
1 tb Plus 1 1/2 ts Milk
1 ts Vanilla
Food color, if desired
--------- CHOCOLATE GLAZE ---------
1 c Powdered sugar
2 tb Milk
1 ts Vanilla
1 Ounce unsweetened chocolate,
--------- GLAZE ---------
Glaze or chocolate glaze
1/2 c Margarine or butter, softene
1 tb Vanilla
1 Ounce unsweetened chocolate,
Melted and cooled
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour*
1/8 ts Salt
Dates, nuts, semisweet choc
Chips and candied or marasc
Cherries.
Melted and cooled

Method:

*do not use self-rising flour in This recipe.
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix powdered sugar, margarine, vanilla and unsweetened chocolate.
Stir in flour and salt until dough holds together.
(If dough is dry, mix in 1 to 2 tablespoons milk.
) For each cookie, shape dough by tablespoonful around date, nut, chocolate chips or cherry to form ball.
Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until set but not brown; cool.
Dip tops of cookies into Glaze.
Decorate with coconut, nuts, colored sugar, chocolate chips or chocolate shot if desired.
ABOUT 2 DOZEN COOKIES; 130 CALORIES PER COOKIE.
GLAZEMix powdered sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth.
Tint with a few drops of food color.
CHOCOLATE GLAZEMix powdered sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth.
Stir in chocolate.