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CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRY COOKIES




Source of Recipe


(Josielyn)


List of Ingredients




1½ cups flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1½ teaspoons vanilla
48 maraschino cherries (drained, juice reserved)

FROSTING:

6 oz semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup sweetened condensed milk
4-5 teaspoons of the reserved cherry juice

Recipe



In bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla to butter-sugar mixture and beat well. Gradually add dry ingredients to butter-sugar mixture and beat until well blended.

Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and push down center of each ball with thumb. Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place 1 cherry in center of each indentation. Heat oven to 350°.

For frosting, put chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk in small saucepan. Heat until chocolate melts. Stir in 4 teaspoons cherry juice. If too thick, add more juice.

Spoon 1 teaspoon frosting over each cherry. Spread to cover cherry. Bake 10 minutes or until done. Do not overcook. Remove to wire rack and cool. The cookies freeze nicely.