Frankie's Mom's Chocolate Balls
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INGREDIENTS
  • 4 cups flour
  • 4 tsp. Baking powder
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup cocoa
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 cup walnuts
  • 1 cup (or more) Chocolate chips
  • 1 1/4 cup shortening
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
DIRECTIONS
  1. Put dry ingredients in bowl, add shortening and mix with fingers. Then add nuts, raisins, and chocolate chips. In a separate bowl, beat eggs, milk, and vanilla lightly. Make hole in dry mixture and add liquid, mixing it into a stiff dough. Shape in palms of hands into balls about as big as walnuts.
  2. Bake at 400 for 15 minutes. Ice when hot with powdered sugar mixed with milk