Recipe - Chocolate Volcano Cookies

4 Squares; (4 oz.) semisweet
chocolate
One half cup Shortening
2 cup Sugar
4 Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla
2 cup Allpurpose flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
Confectioner's sugar

Preheat oven to 325 F.

Melt chocolate and shortening in the top of a double boiler (or in a mixing
bowl set in a pan of very warm water).

Add the sugar. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each one. Add
the vanilla.

Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet
ingredients and stir to thoroughly incorporate.

Chill dough. Roll into small balls, and roll the balls in confectioner's
sugar. Place them on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake 1012 minutes.
Do not overbake.

As they bake, the cookies will spread slightly and the tops will crack.

Source: Clipped from the Chicago Daily News years ago.

Posted to MMRecipes Digest V4 #323 by Marilyn Olander
molander@pop.primenet.com on Dec 12, 1997