Dodo (chocolate Holiday Cookies)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 4 cups flour
• 1 3/4 cups sugar, plus
• 4 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon clove
• 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 6 tablespoons cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 teaspoon extract (vanilla, almond, or anise)
• 1/2 cup nuts (i rolled my cookie balls in the nuts _about 1-1/2 cups) (optional)

Recipe

• 1 sift the dry ingredients together.
• 2 heat the milk until very warm but not boiling and melt the shortening in the milk.
• 3 let it cool and add in the dry ingredients.
• 4 add the nuts if desired.
• 5 roll in 1-inch balls and bake in a preheated 375° oven for about 12 minutes.
• 6 frost with the following recipe.
• 7 frosting.
• 8 1-cup confectioners’ sugar.
• 9 milk.
• 10 1-teaspoon anise or vanilla extract (i made two icings and use anise and vanilla flavorings).
• 11 mix confectioners’ sugar with enough milk to make the icing spreadable.
• 12 mix in anise or vanilla extract and frost the cookies.