| 1 12 cup Flour | | 1/2 cup Unsweetened cocoa powder | | 1/4 tsp Salt | | 1/4 tsp Baking powder | | 1/4 tsp Baking soda | | 1/2 cup Butter or margarine, | | Softened | | 1 cup Sugar | | 1 x Egg | | 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla | | 48 x Maraschino cherries | | frosting--- | | 6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips | | 1/2 cup Sweetened condensed milk | | Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp) |
| | Preparation Time: 45 minutes | | Baking Time: 10 minutes | | 1. In bowl, stir together flour , cocoa , salt , baking powder and baking soda . In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla to butter-sugar mixture and beat well. Gradually add dry ingredients to butter-sugar mixture and beat until well blended. | | 2. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and push down center of each ball with thumb. Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place 1 cherry in center of each indentation. Heat oven to 350 degrees. | | 3. For frosting, put chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk in small saucepan. Heat until chocolate melts. Stir in 4 teaspoons cherry juice. If too thick, add more juice. | | 4. Spoon 1 teaspoon frosting over each cherry. Spread to cover cherry. Bake 10 minutes or until done. Do not overcook. Remove to wire rack and cool. The cookies freeze nicely. | | Winner Donna M. Farrell of Naperville entered her chocolate covered cherry cookie recipe: Christmas and chocolate-covered cherries are forever entwined in my mind and memories. Not the expensive department store kind |
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