Surprise Cookies

• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Combine shortening, eggs, flour, dry ingredients, and mix like pie dough. Make a little ball and stick a pecan half in the middle of the ball. Bake 8 minutes. Cut large marshmallow in half and place on each cookie. Put back in oven for about 3 minutes (don't leave so long the marshmallow falls off). Bake at 350 degrees. Makes approximately 5...

Here is the recipe which was brought up by Thomas in the first squirrel story a few weeks ago:

Squirrel Cookies or "Nut Balls"...Yum!

Another thing you can do is make "squirrel cookies".  They're filling for the squirrels, so they don't eat as much of your birdseed.  More importantly though, they are more nutritious than bags of sunflower seed, peanuts, and corn.  (Some of those things are OK as a treat, but avoid feeding it to them as their main diet).  The...