Bon Bon Cookies

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 3 drops food coloring, if desired
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• dates or nuts or chocolate chips or candied cherries or maraschino cherry
• glaze (below) or chocolate glaze (below)

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees. mix powdered sugar, margarine, vanilla and food coloring. work in flour and salt until dough holds together. (if dough is dry, mix in 1 to 2 tablespoons milk).
• 2 for each cookie, shape dough by tablespoonful around date, nut, chocolate chips or cherry to form ball. place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. bake until set but not brown, 12 to 15 minutes; cool.
• 3 dip tops of cookies into glaze. decorate with coconut, nuts, colored sugar, chocolate chips or chocolate shot, if desired.
• 4 glaze: beat 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla until smooth and of desired consistency. tint parts of glaze with different food colors if desired.
• 5 chocolate glaze: beat 1 cup powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, 1 ounce melted unsweetened chocolate (cool) and 1 teaspoon vanilla until smooth and of desired consistency.
• 6 chocolate bonbon cookies: omit food color. stir 1 ounce melted unsweetened chocolate (cool) into margarine mixture.