Recipe - Chocolate Refrigerator Cookies

1 One fourth cup Butter or margarine
1 One half cup Powdered sugar sifted
1 Egg
3 cup Cake and icing shortening
One half cup Cooca
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 One half cup Chopped pecans
4 ounce German Sweet Chocolate

Cream butter and sugar, blend in egg. Measure flour by spooning into cup
and leveling off or by sifting. Stir flour, cocoa and salt into butter
mixture; blend well. Chill dough 1 to 2 hours press and mold into 2 long
smooth rolls about 1 1/2" in diameter. Roll in chopped pecans pressing nuts
into all sides. Chill overnight. Heat oven to 400 degrees cut into 1/8"
slices. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 10 min. Cool Melt chocolate
in double boiler; frost center of cookies. Makes about 8 doz.
Per serving: 8080 Calories; 905g Fat (99% calories from fat); 14g Protein;
16g Carbohydrate; 794mg Cholesterol; 2902mg Sodium

Recipe by: Mrs. George Dow, Owatonna, MN

From The Chocolate Archives, Dec 1997, http://www.choco.com