Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

Name: Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 18 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup white sugar 1 cup white sugar; ½ cup butter ½ cup butter; 1 egg 1 egg; 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour; ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder; ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon baking soda; ¼ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon baking powder; 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries; ½ cup sweetened condensed milk ½ cup sweetened condensed milk; 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Prep: 20 minsCook: 10 mins

Prep

20 mins

Cook

10 mins

Servings

Difficulty

Easy

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Servings:

11 cup white sugar
½ cup butter½ cup butter
11 egg
11 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
11 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon baking powder¼ teaspoon baking powder
11 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
½ cup sweetened condensed milk½ cup sweetened condensed milk
11 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
2
Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Stir in flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder until smooth. Roll dough into walnut-size balls and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Make an indentation with your thumb in the center of each cookie.
3
Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place a cherry in the indentation of each cookie ball.
4
Combine chocolate chips with condensed milk in a saucepan over low heat; stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in 4 teaspoons of cherry juice. Drizzle or spoon about 1 teaspoon of chocolate cherry mixture over each cherry to cover.
5
Bake in the preheated for 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets briefly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

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