Recipe - Bon Bon Cookies

One half cup Butter; softened
Three fourths cup Powdered sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Food coloring if desired
1 One half cup Flour; sifted
1/8 teaspoon Salt

FILLINGS
Maraschino cherries; drained
Nuts; chopped fine

ICING
1 cup Powdered sugar; sifted
2 tablespoon Cream
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Food coloring if desired
Coconut; colored

Mix butter, sugar, vanilla and food coloring together. Add flour and salt.
If dough is dry, add 1 or 2 tablespoons cream. Wrap level tablespoon dough
around filling. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake until set but not
brown approximately 12 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Dip tops of warm
cookies in icing. Decorate with chopped nuts, or coconut.

NOTES : To color coconut, place coconut in quart jar. Add drops of liquid
coloring, Place lid on jar and shake jar until coconut is coated with
coloring. Recipe by: Betty Crocker Cookbook

Posted to EATL Digest by "Iris E. Dunaway" hister@JUNO.COM on Dec 21,
1997