chocolate covered cherry cookies

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

These chocolate cherry cookies taste as good as they sound!

Ingredient

• 1 cup white sugar

• ½ cup butter

• 1 egg

• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

• ¼ teaspoon salt

• ¼ teaspoon baking soda

• ¼ teaspoon baking powder

• 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries

• ½ cup sweetened condensed milk

• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Direction

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

2. Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Stir in flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder until smooth. Roll dough into walnut-size balls and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Make an indentation with your thumb in the center of each cookie.

3. Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place a cherry in the indentation of each cookie ball.

4. Combine chocolate chips with condensed milk in a saucepan over low heat; stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in 4 teaspoons of cherry juice. Drizzle or spoon about 1 teaspoon of chocolate cherry mixture over each cherry to cover.

5. Bake in the preheated for 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets briefly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

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