Carol's Drop Cookies

1/4 cup/60 mL butter
1/4 cup/60 mL shortening
3/4 cup/180 mL sugar
1 egg
1-1/2 tsp/7.5 mL Watkins Hazelnut or Watkins Irish Cream Extract
7 tbsp/105 mL Watkins Baking Cocoa
1 3/4 cups/420 mL flour
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Watkins Sea Salt
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Watkins Baking Powder
1/2 cup/125 mL milk
Watkins Cooking Spray

Frosting:
4 oz/114 g cream cheese
1/2 cup/125 mL powdered sugar
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Watkins Hazelnut or Watkins Irish Cream Extract
Additional powdered sugar (optional)

Cooking Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F/180/C.

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and shortening, add sugar and mix well. Beat in egg and extract. Add cocoa and mix well.

In separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture and milk gradually to the chocolate, mixing well. Drop tablespoons of dough about 2 inches/5 cm apart onto a cookie sheet sprayed with Watkins Cooking spray. Bake in preheated oven about 7 to 9 minutes, until cookie tops look dry.

Makes about 3 dozen.

Mix frosting ingredients until smooth. Frost tops of cookies, or sandwich cookies together with frosting in center and sprinkle with powdered sugar.