hocolate Cherry Cookies
These Chocolate Cherry Cookies are a fabulous treat. A soft fudge cookie with a plump sweet maraschino cherry right in the center and then drizzled with a chocolate fudge sauce. Are you making cookie trays for the holidays? Small Batch Almond Joy Cookies and Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies are delicious and beautiful additions to your cookie trays as well.
Who could ask for more? Not only are these Chocolate Cherry Cookies a delectable treat but they are so attractive. See what I mean! We love these cookies and they are just so perfect for the season. What could be prettier for the season than chocolate and cherry!
First using mixer cream butter and both sugars. Then add eggs one at a time and mix in. In a separate bowl combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Slowly blend the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Then add the vanilla and cherry juice and mix just until combined. Cover and refrigerate for thirty minutes.
Smooth a little butter on your hands and roll dough into one inch balls. Place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Using thumb press small indentation in center of cookie and place a maraschino cherry in hole. Bake for ten minutes.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
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Who could ask for more? Not only are these Chocolate Cherry Cookies a delectable treat but they are so attractive. See what I mean! We love these cookies and they are just so perfect for the season. What could be prettier for the season than chocolate and cherry!
First using mixer cream butter and both sugars. Then add eggs one at a time and mix in. In a separate bowl combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Slowly blend the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Then add the vanilla and cherry juice and mix just until combined. Cover and refrigerate for thirty minutes.
Smooth a little butter on your hands and roll dough into one inch balls. Place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Using thumb press small indentation in center of cookie and place a maraschino cherry in hole. Bake for ten minutes.
INGREDIENTS
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2/3 cup cocoa
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons cherry juice (from maraschino cherry jar)
- 30-36 jarred maraschino cherries
- 1/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tablespoon cherry juice (from maraschino cherry jar)
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream butter and both sugars with mixer. Add eggs one at a time and mix in.
- Combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda in a medium bowl. Add 1/2 cup dry mixture to butter mixture at a time. Blending after each addition just until combined and scraping side of mixer bowl as needed. Add vanilla and 2 teaspoons cherry juice and mix just until combined. Remove bowl from mixer and refrigerate for 30 minutes
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