Title: Canadian cookie treats
 Categories: Cookie, Ethnic
      Yield: 24 Servings
 
    1/2 c  Butter
    1/2 c  Shortening
  1 1/4 c  Sugar
      1    Egg
      1 ts Vanilla
  2 1/2 c  Flour
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 c  Choc. chips
    1/2 c  Broken pecans
    1/2 c  Flaked coconut
    1/2 c  Chopped marachino cherries
           Icing:
      1 c  Powder sugar
    1/4 ts Almond extract
      2 tb Marachino cherry juice
 
  Beat butter, sugar and shortening until fluffy.Beat in egg and
  vanilla. Sift dry ingrdients and blend in.Dough will be stiff. blend
  in chocolate, nuts and fruits. Press into a grease 10 x 15 x 1 pan.
  bake 350 for 20 minutes or done. Cool to warm and spread on icing.
  Cut when warm and recut when cool.
  
  From: Lir119