Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies

By CarolM-2

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 (12-oz) jar maraschino cherries
• 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 1/4 tsp salt

Details

Servings 24
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 30mins
Adapted from parade.condenast.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 F.

Beat the butter and sugars together in a large bowl, then add the egg and beat well--then beat in the vanilla.

In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add this all at once to the wet ingredients and mix together well.

Use your hands to roll the dough (it might be crumbly, just press it together in your hands) into balls slightly smaller than a golf ball, and place on an ungreased baking sheet. Press gently down in the center of each ball with your thumb.

Drain the cherries (reserving the juice) and place one cherry in the indention of each cookie.

Put the chocolate chips, condensed milk and salt in a saucepan over medium heat and stir until melted and mixed together. Stir in about 2 tbsp of the reserved cherry juice to thin the icing a bit--you can add more if it's too thick.

Drizzle some frosting on each cookie, then bake in the oven for 10 minutes, or until almost firm. Allow to cool for 5 minutes on the tray, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.