Recipe: Perfect Chocolate covered cherry cookies

Chocolate covered cherry cookies. For frosting, melt chocolate chips in milk in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat; add cherry juice and stir until smooth. Press down center of each ball with thumb. Place a cherry in the center of each cookie. In a small saucepan combine the chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk; heat until chocolate is melted.

Beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl. Add egg and vanilla and beat well. Add the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and stir until smooth. You can cook Chocolate covered cherry cookies using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate covered cherry cookies

1. It's 1/2 cup of butter.
2. You need 1 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 1 of egg.
4. It's 1 1/2 tsp. of vanilla.
5. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of flour.
6. It's 1/2 cup of baking cocoa.
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp. of salt.
8. Prepare 1/4 tsp. of baking powder.
9. You need 1/4 tsp. of baking soda.
10. Prepare 48 of maraschino cherries, blotted dry.
11. Prepare of Frosting:.
12. Prepare 1 cup of semisweet chocolate chips.
13. Prepare 1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk.
14. You need 1-3 tsp. of maraschino cherry juice.

In small saucepan combine chocolate and milk, heat until chocolate is melted. Remove to wire rack; cool and serve. If frosting is too thick it may be thinned with additional cherry juice. Add flour and cocoa; beat until well combined.

Chocolate covered cherry cookies instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture, mixing between each addition (batter will be very firm). Shape into 48 balls, about 1 inch round, and place on ungreased cookie sheets (I line mine with parchment paper). Push 1 cherry halfway into each ball..
2. For frosting, melt chocolate chips and milk in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat; add cherry juice and stir until smooth. Spoon 1 tsp. of frosting over each cherry (the frosting will spread over cookie during baking). Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. I put mine in for 12. Cool on wire racks..

Place a cherry in the center indention of each cookie. In small saucepan, combine chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk. Heat over low heat until chocolate is melted. After this is all mixed up and the cookies are cooled off a bit, spoon the melted chocolate on the cookie, just enough to cover the cherry. Or more if you like your cookies messy.