German Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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Title: GERMAN CHOCOLATE CRINKLE COOKIES
Categories: Cookies, Ethnic, German
Yield: 48 servings

1 pk Pillsbury Plus German
- chocolate cake mix
1/2 c Instant Mashed potato flakes
1 ts Cream of tartar
1 ts Cinnamon
3/4 c Butter/margarine , melted
3 tb Milk
1 Egg
1/2 c Chopped nuts
1/4 c To 1/2 c sugar

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1 c Powdered sugar
2 ts Unsweetened cocoa
1 tb Soft margarine or butter
1 tb To 2 tb milk

Heat oven to 350. Combine first 7 ingredients; blend
well. Stir in nuts. Let stand 5 minutes. Drop by
rounded teaspoonfuls into sugar; gently toss until
sugar coated. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie
sheets.

Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes. (Cookies will be
soft in center.) Cool 1 minute; remove from pans.

If desired, frost cookies. Combine frosting
ingredients; blend until smooth. Spread on cooled
cookies. Yield: 4 to 5 dozen. HIGH ALTITUDE -- above
3500 feet: bake at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes. From:
Pillsbury America's Bake-off, 1978.

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