Chocolate cherry delight
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Chocolate-covered Cherry Delights
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 3 cups flour not sifted
- 2 10 ounce maraschino cherries
- 6 ounces chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
Directions:
Melt butter. Add sugar. Cool. Add eggs; mix. Add baking powder, baking soda, salt, vanilla and cocoa, stirring after each addition. Add flour; mix well.
Dough will be stiff and crumbly.
Drain cherries and remove stems, reserve juice.
Pat dough into walnut sized balls. Place on greased cookie sheet, 12 to a sheet. Press center with thumb. Place one cherry in indentation.
In double boiler, combine chips, condensed milk. Melt. Add 1/8 cup cherry juice. Spoon over cherries on cookie to cover cherry, don’t drip down sides.
Bake at 350 degrees 10-12 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet two minutes, then on wire rack.
