Chocolate Nut-Filled Cookies

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Title: Chocolate Nut-Filled Cookies
Categories: Dessert, Cookie, S/l
Yield: 3 dozen

2/3 c Shortening
2/3 c Sugar
2 Eggs
2 c Flour, all-purpose
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt

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1/4 c Sugar
1 tb Cornstarch
1/2 c Chocolate syrup
1/4 c Pecans; chopped

Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg, and beat
well. Add flour, baking powder, and salt; mix well. Chill dough 2 to
4 hours.

Roll out dough to 1/8" thickness on a lightly floured board. Cut
half of dough into 36 circles with a 2" cookie cutter. Using a 2"
doughnut cutter, cut remaining dough into 36 circles.

Place solid circles on lightly greased cookie sheets. In center of
each circle, place a teaspoon of Chocolate-Nut Filling; spread almost
to the edges. Top with a circle cut with doughnut cutter; seal edges
with fork tines. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. (Cookies
may be filled with jam.)

Chocolate-Nut Filling:
Combine all ingredients; cook over low heat until thick and smooth.
cool. Yield: about 1 cup filling.

SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, May 1974.
Typos by Nancy Coleman.

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