Chocolate Jumbos Recipes

Steps:

• Mix together sugar and margarine.
• Add eggs and molasses, mix well.
• Slowly add in cocoa and ground cloves and vanilla.
• Add buttermilk to mixture and beat well.
• In seperate bowl mix together dry ingredients, flour, baking soda, and salt.
• slowly mix in dry ingredient mixture, stirring well.
• Refrigerate dough for 3 hours.
• Roll out dough on lightly floured surface, cut with donut cutter.
• Bake at 350 for 10- 12 minutes.
• Cool and Frost with confectioners icing.

Steps:

• 1. Mix ingredients together. Roll batter about 1/2 inch thick, and cut into desired shapes. Bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes. Cool and frost with favorite icing or: 2 1/2 cup 10x 2 egg whites 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar 1/4 tsp. vanilla Beat last 4 till foamy and add sugar until firm peaks form.

Steps:

• Mix soda into molasses then add brown sugar, eggs cinnamon, and cloves.
• Melt lard, butter and chocolate, then add to mixture.
• Sift in flour gradually, until stiff.
• Refrigerate to make dough hard and easy to roll.
• Roll out dough on floured surface until about 1/4 inch think.
• Cut using a "jumble cutter" (great grandma use to have these custom made) or cut ino 4 inch circles with a 1 inch hole in the middle. You can also use cookie cutters.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 7-9 minutes in 350 degree oven. The cookie edges will start to turn brown.
• Make a frosting with water and powdered sugar and frost cookies.
• Tip: If cookies dry out, place the heal of a piece of bread in the storage container.