Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies!!

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies!!

Hmmm! Ever tried these? Don't they

look delicious? Want to try em? Here

is the recipe!!!

1 1/2 C Flour

1/2 C Unsweetened cocoa powder

1/4 T Salt

1/4 T Baking powder

1/4 T Baking soda

1/2 C Butter (or margarine,)

Softened

1 C Sugar

1 Egg

1 1/2 t Vanilla

48 Maraschino cherries

Frosting

6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 C Sweetened condensed milk

Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)

1. In 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.