Bon Bon Cookies

Bon Bon cookies are fun to make for Christmas and with a few different options of how to make them, the choice is up to you. Create bon bon cookies with chocolate icing for a twist.

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
food coloring, if desired
1 1/2 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
candied or maraschino cherries, pitted dates, nuts, or chocolate pieces

Instructions

Bon Bons:

Add together chopped nuts, coconut, colored sugar Mix butter, sugar, vanilla, and food coloring.
Measure by dipping method or by sifting. Blend flour and salt in thoroughly with hand. If dough is dry, add 1 to 2 tablespoons milk. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
For each cookie, wrap 1 level Tablespoon dough around a filling suggested above.
Bake 1" apart on ungreased baking sheet 12 to 15 minutes, or until set but not brown.
Cool; dip tops of cookies in icing. Decorate each cookie with one of the toppings suggested. Makes 20 to 25 cookies.

Bon Bon Icing: Mix 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons cream or milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and red, green, or yellow food coloring, if desired.

Chocolate Bon Bon Icing: Make Bon Bon Icing (above) - except add 1 square unsweetened chocloate (1 oz.), melted and use 1/4 cup cream or milk. Penuche Bon

Bons: Make Bon Bon cookies - except use 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed) in place of confectioners' sugar.