Crisp Cocoa Cookies

Cousin Jeremys favorite. Grandma Z always made these when I was a kid. They are simple, use hardly anything and are wonderful. Zoa made her first batch of these last night and they turned out FABULOUS.

Crisp Cocoa Cookies
dry:
2 cups flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking Powder
1/4 tsp salt

wet:
2/3 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp real vanilla
3 TBS milk or 1/2 n 1/2

Whip wet ingredients together in one bowl until fluffy. Mix dry into another. Slowly mix the dry into the wet. Do not overmix.

Roll dough into 1 inch balls, place on greased cookie sheet. Take a flat bottomed glass and butter it. Dip glass into sugar and flatten dough ball once. Glass into sugar and flatten dough ball a 2nd time. 2 flattens per cookie.

Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and take off cookie sheet after cooling for a few minutes. Enjoy.