Description
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?
Ingredients
- FOR THE COOKIES:
- ½ cups Butter, Softened
- ½ cups Sugar
- ½ cups Brown Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1-½ cup All-purpose Flour
- ⅔ cups Cocoa
- ¼ teaspoons Salt
- ¼ teaspoons Baking Soda
- ¼ teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 teaspoons Cherry Juice (from Maraschino Cherry Jar)
- 36 Jarred Maraschino Cherries
- FOR DRIZZLING:
- ¼ cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 2 Tablespoons Sweetened, Condensed Milk
- 1 Tablespoon Cherry Juice (from Maraschino Cherry Jar)
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
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 cherry juice, mix just until combined. Remove bowl from mixer and refrigerate for 30 minutes
Butter hands and roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place on cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Using thumb press small indentation in center of cookie and place maraschino cherry in hole.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Melt chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk on low. When melted, add 1 tablespoon cherry juice. Drizzle over cooled cookies.
