4               cups  Holiday Cookie Mix -- (see recipe)
  1                cup  chopped nuts
     1/4           cup  margarine or butter (1/2 stick) -- softened
  1           teaspoon  vanilla
     1/2      teaspoon  almond extract
  2                     eggs
  2             ounces  unsweetened chocolate -- melted and cooled
                        Powdered sugar
                        Easy Frosting -- (recipe follows)
                        EASY FROSTING
  1                cup  powdered sugar
  1         tablespoon  milk (about)
     1/2      teaspoon  almond extract
Heat oven to 375B:. Mix Holiday Cookie Mix, nuts, margarine, vanilla, almond
extr
act, eggs and chocolate. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place about 1 inch
apar
t on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Cool slightly before removing from
cookie s
heet.
Roll about 30 cookies in powdered sugar while warm; cool on wire rack. Roll
in 
powdered sugar again. Frost remaining cookies with Easy Frosting. Decorate
fros
ted cookies with coconut.
EASY FROSTING:
Mix all ingredients until smooth and of spreading consistency.
Please note, if you should change this recipe it will no longer be an
approved 
Betty CrockerB. Recipe.
Copyright:
  "B) General Mills, Inc. 1998."
  "60 Cookies"