Description
These taste as good as they sound!
Ingredients
- 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 soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
- ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- 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.
- Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place a cherry in the indentation of each cookie ball.
- 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.
- Bake in the preheated for 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets briefly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Servings: 9