These are such pretty cookies, and perfect for Christmas. If you can believe this, coming out of the oven, they actually smelled like the chocolate glaze on a fresh donut...? Wow. So incredibly good. They are kind of like a chocolate thumbprint cookie with a maraschino cherry inside the thumbprint and covered with a chocolate-cherry ganache. Making the thumbprint was a perfect job for my two hungry puppies, and their little fingers were the perfect size. The best part? They finally got the okay from me to stick their fingers in the cookie dough.
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
1/2 cup melted butter (1 stick)
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup cocoa
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 10-oz. jar maraschino cherries (drain cherries (about 30) and reserve juice)
1/2 cup chocolate chips
2 Tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Melt the butter and mix in the sugar. When the mixture has cooled off a bit, add the egg and beat well. Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, vanilla and cocoa, then beat carefully (or you might get a cocoa cloud) until well combined. Add the flour and beat until incorporated. The dough will be stiff.
Using a small cookie scoop, scoop the dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Press down in the center of each ball to make an indentation. Place one cherry in each indentation. You probably won't use all of the cherries.
Melt the chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk together, being careful not to scorch the chocolate. Start adding in some of the reserved cherry juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, until the sauce is thick, but will still drop off of a spoon. Spoon a small bit of the sauce over the cherry in each cookie, just enough to cover the cherry and not run down the sides.
Bake for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely. Makes about 30 cookies.
Enjoy! -Cardamommy
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