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1986 Winner Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
1986 Winner Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
- Recipe Submitted by ADMIN on 09/26/2007
Category: Cookies, Holiday
Ingredients List
- 1 1/2 c Flour
- 1/2 c Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 ts Salt
- 1/4 ts Baking powder
- 1/4 ts Baking soda
- 1/2 c Butter or margarine,
- Softened
- 1 c Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 1/2 ts Vanilla
- 48 Maraschino cherries
Directions
FROSTING
6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 c Sweetened condensed milk
Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)
Preparation time: 45 minutes Baking time: 10 minutes
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 degrees.
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.
Winner Donna M. Farrell of Naperville entered her chocolate covered
cherry cookie recipe: "Christmas and chocolate-covered cherries are forever
entwined in my mind and memories. Not the expensive department store kind,
mind you, with their dark bitter chocolate and runny syrup, but your basic
Brach's. Each Christmas found the coveted white box stretching my stocking,
two layers of cream-filled heaven with a cherry floating thereinand no
requirement to share them with anyone.
6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 c Sweetened condensed milk
Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)
Preparation time: 45 minutes Baking time: 10 minutes
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 degrees.
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.
Winner Donna M. Farrell of Naperville entered her chocolate covered
cherry cookie recipe: "Christmas and chocolate-covered cherries are forever
entwined in my mind and memories. Not the expensive department store kind,
mind you, with their dark bitter chocolate and runny syrup, but your basic
Brach's. Each Christmas found the coveted white box stretching my stocking,
two layers of cream-filled heaven with a cherry floating thereinand no
requirement to share them with anyone.
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