Chocolate shadows

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Semi-sweet chocolate chips
⅛ teaspoon To 1/4 ts peppermint extract
1¼ cup Pillsbury's Best All Purpose or
Self-Rising Flour
½ cup Sugar
½ cup Firmly packed brown sugar
¾ teaspoon Soda
½ teaspoon Salt
½ cup Shortening or margarine
½ cup Peanut butter
1 Egg

Directions

A marbling of chocolate-mint flavor.

Heat oven to 375 degrees F. In small saucepan, melt chocolate chips over very low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in peppermint extract. Cool.

Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off. In large bowl, combine remaining ingredients; mix well. Add melted chocolate and stir just to marble. Shape into 1-inch balls; place, 2 inches apart, on ungreased cookie sheets; flatten with bottom of glass dipped in sugar.

Bake at 375 degrees F. for 8 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool cookies slightly before removing from cookie sheets. 40 cookies.

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