Chocolate Cookie Recipes (Fun to Make With the Kids) Part 1

One of the best ways to make memories with your children or grandchildren is to allow them in the kitchen with you. Kids love to bake and they enjoy eating and sharing with others the goodies they make. It is also a fun learning experience for them, one they don't even realize is a lesson. Organing ingredients, following the instructions in the recipe, working together to make something special, and don't forget clean-up. It is important for children to learn that after the fun, there is clean-up to be done.

If you work it right, they will even think that is part of the fun. Counting and measuring is also a good math lesson. So don't try to keep your children out of the kitchen. Invite them in and have fun together. Homemade Chocolate Sandwich Cookies is a recipe they will love as they get to put the cookies and filling together to make "sandwiches". They may not get them perfect but life is not about perfection in everything. You aren't trying to make a masterpiece, just a cookie! And the kids will love dunking the Chocolate Dunk Cookies in the chocolate mixture. Note: When baking with chocolate and children, be sure they wear aprons, smocks, or older clothing.

HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES

This recipe is from an old Midwestern State church cookbook.

1/2 cup butter or oleo
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsps baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cocoa

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Mix all ingredients together in the order given. Beat until smooth. Drop by rounded teaspoon on buttered cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 7 minutes. Do not over bake. Cool and make sandwiches using the filling recipe below.

Marshmallow Filling:

1/2 cup white shortening
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup marshmallow cream
1 tsp vanilla
3 or 4 tsps milk (adjust amount for the right consistency)

Cream shortening and sugar together and mix in rest of the ingredients. Spread between cookies and make sandwiches. Wrap individually in plastic wrap to store so they won't stick together.

Note: This recipe uses some ingredients that make it diabetic friendly. You can make the following changes, if you do not have diabetics in your family: Substitute 1 egg for the egg substitute and 3/4 cup granulated sugar for the Splenda granular.

Enjoy!
By Linda Carol Wilson
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