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Chocolate-Covered Cherry Delights
Chocolate cookies hold a cherry in the center with a chocolate frosting over the top creating a cookie reminiscent of chocolate covered cherries.
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
1 hr 30 mins
Servings:
2
dozen cookies
Course:
Baked Goods
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter 1 stick, melted
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 10- oz. maraschino cherries jarred
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Melt the butter and mix in the sugar. When the mixture has cooled off a bit, add the egg and mix. Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, vanilla and cocoa, stirring after each addition. Add the flour and mix well. The dough will be stiff and a bit crumbly.
- Drain the cherries and reserve the juice.
- Roll the dough into walnut-sized balls and place on a greased cookie sheet, 12 per sheet. Press down in the center of each ball to make an indentation. Place one cherry in each indentation.
- In a double boiler, combine the chocolate chips and the sweetened condensed milk. Heat on low, stirring, until the chocolate chips have melted. Start adding in some of the reserved cherry juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, until the sauce is thick and will glob off a spoon. If it won’t glob off, keep adding juice until it is the right consistency. Spoon a small bit of the sauce over the center of each cookie – just enough to cover the cherry. It shouldn’t drip down the sides.**
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Notes
- *you probably won’t use the whole jar of cherries
- **I had quite a bit of the chocolate frosting left over. Good thing it makes a great snack on top of graham crackers!!