Chocolate Nut Clusters

 Chocolate nut clusters

1 cup milk chocolate chips

1 teaspoon shortening

Cashews, peanuts, pecan halves, English walnut halves or miniature marshmallows. 

Pick over the nutmeats. Melt the chocolate pieces with shortening on top of a double boiler over hot, not boiling water. Throw in half a cup of nuts (one kind at a time), and stir around in the melted chocolate. Take out nuts with a fork, and place in little piles on waxed paper covered cookie sheets. Refrigerate until set.  

NOTE

You can use just one type of nut and maybe mix in some miniature marshmallows to make a rocky road candy.