Chocolate Cut Out Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 dash salt
1/2 cup softened butter
1/4 cup shortening
1 1/3 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk

Preparation

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt until well blended .
cream butter and sugar until smooth in a eparate bowl, then beat in the egg and yolk. mix the sifted ingredients into the creamed butter slowly
Divide dough and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
heat the oven to 375 degrees F and on a lightly floured surface roll out the chilled dough to about 1/6 inch thickness and cut dough into shapes. Be careful its sticky!
Bake cookies 8 to 10 then let cool on sheets for a few minutes before removing them to a rack.