Chocolate Pine Cone Cookies

Ingredients

130 gr crisco shortening
325 gr firmly packed brown sugar
16 ml water
4 gr vanilla
2 eggs
190 gr all purpose flour
28 gr cocoa
1 gr baking soda
1 gr salt
325 gr semi-sweet miniature
120 gr semi-sweet chocolate chips
120 gr almonds
5 cm

Instructions

cookie. Arrange toasted almonds in overlapping pattern beginning at the large end on top of chocolate to look like a pine cone. Return to foil to set completely. Repeat with remaining cookies. Makes: About 1 to 1- half dozen pine cones (depending on size) ----