Chocolate Oatmeal Bon Bons

So I've been given the task of typing up some of my Great Grandmothers recipes. I was having a terrible chocolate crisis one evening and decided to try one of her recipes. This is the one I choose mostly cause I had everything on hand, but also cause someone had written "Very Good!" next to it on the recipe card. Turned out that little note was true. These are extremely tasty cookies!

Here is the description that she has on the card: "A rich chocolate cookie, slightly high in the center with a rather unusual texture and flavor due to the chocolate-oatmeal combination. A crunchy, crisp cookie that stores well."

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Chocolate Oatmeal Bon Bons

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup soft butter
• 1/4 cup soft shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 cups quick rolled oats.

First mix together butter, shortening, sugar, egg, chocolate, and vanilla. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add this bowl to butter/sugar bowl and add the oats. Cover and chill throughly. Roll into small balls about the size of a walnut.

Place about 2 inches apart on a lightly greased baking sheet.

Bake for 12 minutes at 350 degrees.