These cherry cookies are perfect for Christmas and other holidays. The cookies are chocolate with cherries in the middle topped with even more chocolate. I don’t even need to tell you how perfect chocolate and cherries are together. The flavor of the cookies reminds me of chocolate cake, they are very moist and rich in flavor. If you are looking for a great cookie recipe for Christmas, this is the way to go! Enjoy.
Cherry Cookies Recipe
- Total Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
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- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 (10 ounces) jar maraschino cherries
- ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl beat butter and sugar until combined. Add egg and vanilla extract, beat well. Add in flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt, baking soda and stir until smooth. Roll the mixture into 1 inch balls. Place each ball onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Press in the center of each ball with your thumb. Drain cherries and reserve the juice. Place a cherry in the indentation of each cookie.
- In a saucepan heat condensed milk and chocolate chips until chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Stir in 4 teaspoons of reserved cherry juice.
- Spoon about 1 teaspoon of the mixture over each cherry and spread to cover the cherry. Place into the oven and bake for 10 minutes.
Allison
Tuesday 28th of December 2010
Oh, my goodness, these are good! I saw this post the other day and couldn't help myself...I had to make them!
I will say that when I was making them, I realized that the amount of baking soda was left out of the ingredient list. I found the recipe on another website, and it said to add 1/4 tsp. of baking soda. I also added another egg because when I mixed everything together, it looked rather dry.
A nice touch was adding some more of the frosting mixture over the top of the cookies right as they came out of the oven.
Thanks for sharing, Bobby! YUM!!
Shady
Friday 24th of December 2010
Sexy looking recipe Bobby! I will try them out very soon. Can't wait! Thank you very much