Chocolate-Filled Bon Bons



1 cup vegetable shortening

1/2 cup unsifted confectioners sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 box or bag (4 - 5 oz.) Milk Chocolate Stars



Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cream shortening and sugar; blend in

vanilla extract. Add flour and salt and mix until blended. Wrap

about 2 teaspoons of dough around each chocolate star. Bake 10 - 12

minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet. (Cookies will brown on bottom

only.) Cool briefly and then remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Frost and decorated as desired.* Makes about 40 cookies.



* I usually dip the tops in a thin powdered sugar frosting, and then

add colorful sprinkles or colored sugar.



** Since I don't eat chocolate, I sometimes make a few with walnut

halves or candied fruit in the middle for me, using food coloring to

tint the non-chocolate ones a light yellow, so I can easily find them.