Chocolate-Covered Cherry Delights
photo by QueenBee49444
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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48 cookies
- Serves:
- 48
ingredients
- 236.59 ml butter, melted
- 473.18 ml white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2.46 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml baking soda
- 2.46 ml salt
- 9.85 ml vanilla
- 236.59 ml cocoa powder
- 709.77 ml flour (not sifted)
- 2 (566.99 g) jar maraschino cherries
- 473.18 ml chocolate chips (6 oz package)
- 118.29 ml sweetened condensed milk
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F, rack in middle position.
- Melt butter and mix in sugar.
- Let mixture cool.
- Add eggs, mix thoroughly.
- Add baking powder, baking soda, salt, vanilla and cocoa, stirring after each addition.
- Add flour and mix well (dough will be stiff and a bit crumbly).
- Drain cherries, remove stems, reserve juice.
- Pat dough into walnut-sized balls.
- Place on a greased cookie sheet, 12 to a standard sheet.
- Press down in center with thumb to make a deep indentation.
- Place one cherry in each indentation.
- In a saucepan, over simmering water (double boiler), combine the chocolate chips and condensed milk.
- Heat on low until the chips are melted.
- Add approximately 1/8 cup of reserved cherry juice and stir to a thick sauce.
- If sauce is too thick, carefully add a little more juice. Test with a teaspoon. If it doesn't glob off, it is too thick.
- Spoon the sauce over the center of each cookie, just enough to cover each cherry. Make sure it doesn't drip down the sides.
- Bake at 350°F for 10-12 minutes.
- Let cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes.
- Remove to rack to finish cooling.
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Reviews
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Got ambitious, needed a chocolate fix, so moved this recipe up in my schedule, & ended up serving these to a small monthly group I host! OUTSTANDING, to say the least, but next time I'll keep most of them to myself! Just as posted, most definitely a keeper of a recipe! [Tagged, made & reviewed in Zaar Chef Alphabet Soup Game]
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
QueenBee49444
Muskegon, Michigan