Chocolate covered marshmallow cookies

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       Title: Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies
  Categories: Cookies, Chocolate
       Yield: 1 servings
  
   1 3/4 c  Flour
     1/2 ts Salt
     1/2 ts Baking soda
     1/2 ts Baking powder
     1/2 c  Shortening
       1 c  Sugar
       1    Egg
       1 ts Vanilla extract
     1/4 c  Milk
      18 lg Marshmallows; halved
      36    Pecan halves; if desired
       2 c  Confectioners' sugar
       5 tb Cocoa powder
     1/8 ts Salt
       3 tb Butter or margarine;
            -softened
       4 tb Light cream; (4 to 5)
  
       Sift together first 4 ingredients. Set aside. In mixing
   bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add egg, vanilla and
   milk. Add flour mixture and mix well. Drop by heaping
   teaspoonfuls about 2" apart onto greased cookie sheets.
   Bake at 350 for 8 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Remove cookies
   from oven, and top each with a marshmallow half. Return to
   oven for 2 minutes. Place cookies on wire racks to cool.
      Meanwhile, beat last 5 ingredients together. Spread on
   each cookie, and top with a pecan half, if desired.
   Makes 3 dozen cookies.  By Anne Calder, Kenosha, WI
   Gramma/Helen
  
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