Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups Flour
• ½ cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
• ¼ tablespoon Salt
• ¼ tablespoon Baking powder
• ¼ tablespoon Baking soda
• ½ cup Butter or margarine, Softened
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 ½ teaspoons Vanilla
• 48 cherries Maraschino cherries
• Frosting
• 6 ounces Semisweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup Sweetened condensed milk
• Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)

Method

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℉.

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.

Notes

From the Chicago Tribune annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 4, 1986

Categories

Cookies