Recipe: Peg Bracken's Chewy Fudge-Cake Cookies (from the I Hate To Cook Book, 1960)

PEG BRACKEN'S CHEWY FUDGE-CAKE COOKIES

"These are handy if you ever want brownies and don't have any nuts. They are good as is, or frosted with Good Old Confectioners' Sugar Frosting or ready mix fudge frosting."

Find your saucepan and melt in it:
2 squares (1 ounce each) baking chocolate
1/4 cup cooking oil (not olive oil)
Then stir in:
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
Then sift together and add:
1 scant cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Chill it for an hour.

Then, after dampening your hands, form it into little balls, roll them in powdered sugar. Place on lightly greased baking sheets.

Bake at 400 degrees F for ten minutes.

GOOD OLD CONFECTIONER'S SUGAR FROSTING:
Sift 2 cups confectioner's sugar with a dash of salt. Then add a teaspoon of vanilla and beat in enough cream to the make it the right consistency to spread.

Source: The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken, 1960