Chinese Marble Cookies

For the 4th of July we decided to make some Chinese Marble Cookies. These are an old family favorite and Drew's family use to buy them when he lived in NY. Eventually one of his brothers figured out the recipe and shared it with the rest of the family. They are a little messy to make....but you'll end up with sort of a crunchy cookie that takes really good.

This is the mess just before you place them in the fridge to cool.

This is the final product. Yum!

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Chinese Marble Cookies

The recipe is a little strange since it was created from a really huge batch and slimmed down to only make a few dozen.....one of these days we'll need to adjust the amounts...yet these work.

Ingredients:

1 ¾ cups + 1 ½ Tbsp. sugar (14 oz.)

1 ½ tsp. salt (¼ oz.)

2 cups +3 Tbsp. shortening (14 oz.)

5 cups cake flour (20 oz.)

1 ¼ tsp. baking soda (scant ¼ oz.)

2 eggs large

½ Tbsp. vanilla (¼ oz.)

¾ tsp almond flavoring (c oz.)

Directions:

Put dough on plastic wrap. Flatten out. Drizzle with ½ cup chocolate chips melted. Fold dough over and over to slightly marble chocolate. Roll to shape into 2-2½" roll. Refrigerate 2 hours. Slice ½" thick slices. Let come to room temperature. Bake 350 for 14-18 min. Makes 3 dozen. These are an absolute favorite of ours.

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