Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

ChefRaylene's Note:

I got this out of BH&G magazine. I love chocolate covered cherries and this recipe is to die for. Enjoy!!

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 48 cookies

• 1 ½ cups flour
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ cup margarine or ½ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 egg
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
• 48 maraschino cherries , undrained
• 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup sweetened condensed milk

Directions:

1. In mixing bowl combine flour and cocoa, set aside.
2. In large bowl, beat butter until softened, add sugar and next 3 ingredients, beat until well combined.
3. Add egg and vanilla, beat well.
4. Gradually beat in flour mixture.
5. Shape dough into 1" balls; place on ungreased pan. Press down center of each cookie and place a cherry in center of each.
6. In small saucepan combine chocolate and milk, heat until chocolate is melted.
7. Stir in 4 tsp cherry juice.
8. Spoon 1 tsp chocolate mixture over each cherry.
9. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes until done. Remove to wire rack; cool and serve.
10. If frosting is too thick it may be thinned with additional cherry juice.

Reviews

[Sugar Fairy]

These are really good. I used dark cocoa powder and drizzled white chocolate over the tops after they cooled, and they looked beautiful. For a quick recipe, these look like you spend a lot of time on them.

[Chef #1472228]

I make these as a Christmas Gift for one of my chocoholics friends. She said they were to die for good!

[chubbyrunner]

Excellent cookie- taste just like the real thing! I saw another reader had trouble with them sticking to the baking sheet- use parchment paper (not wax paper) and you'll never have another stuck cookie again!