Jessica's Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
These chocolate-covered cherry cookies will be the hit of the party. If you love chocolate covered cherries, you will love these cookies!
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- Serves: 36 persons
Ingredients
- 1 ½cups all-purpose flour
- ½cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼teaspoon salt
- ¼teaspoon baking soda
- ¼teaspoon baking powder
- ½cup butter, room temperature
- 1cup granulated sugar
- 1large egg
- 1 ½teaspoons vanilla
- 1jar maraschino cherries (10 ounces)
- 1package (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips (1 cup)
- ½cup sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
Step 1
Gather the ingredients.Step 2
In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda; blending well and set aside. In a mixing bowl, beat together butter or margarine and sugar on low speed until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Gradually add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture; beat until smooth and well blended.Step 3
With hands, shape dough into 1-inch balls; place on ungreased baking sheet. Press down center of dough with thumb.Step 4
Drain maraschino cherries well, reserving juice. Place a cherry in the center indention of each cookie.Step 5
In small saucepan combine chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk; heat over low heat until chocolate is melted. Stir in 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon of the reserved cherry juice. Spoon about 1 teaspoon of the topping over each cherry, spreading to cover cherry. If frosting seems too thick, thin with a little more cherry juice.Step 6
Bake at 350 F for 10 minutes, or until done. Remove to wire rack to cool.