Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Submitted by Margaret Mealiff
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1 10 oz. jar maraschino cherries
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well. Add flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and stir until smooth. Roll the mixture into balls about the size of a walnut (larger, if desired). Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Press center of each ball with thumb.
- Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place a cherry in indentation of each cookie ball.
- In a saucepan, heat condensed milk and chocolate chips until chips are melted. Stir in 4 tsp. of cherry juice. Spoon about 1 tsp of mixture over each cherry and spread to cover cherry. (More cherry juice may be added to keep frosting of spreading consistency.) Bake for 10 minutes.