Chocolate covered cherry cookies!
Chocolate covered cherry cookies! This is our first video of 10 days of cookies!
This is our favorite time of year and our busiest season. You want to impress your family and friends at your holiday party or dinner, bake some amazing homemade cookies that will rock your socks off and this one does that. It's pretty simple with a big payoff on taste!
½ cup butter room temp
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 ½ cups flour
½ cup cocoa sifted
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
1 10-oz jar Maraschino cherries Drained, save juice( you won't use all of them)
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
½ cup sweetened condensed milk
In the stand mixer or handle held mixer in a mixing bowl, cream your butter then slowly add your sugar until creamy and pale. Begin with ½ cup of butter in a mixer. Add your egg on low speed, then add in vanilla.
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Make sure there are no clumps in dry ingredients, if so, sift your ingredients.
Add dry ingredients slowly to cream the mixture. Beat on low speed until combined. The dough will somewhat dry and almost crumbly.
Make 1-inch balls out of the dough and place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet with 1 inch ice cream scoop. Roll in hands until smooth
Drain a 10 oz jar of Maraschino cherries. Preserve the juice and set aside for later. Pat cherries until completely dry. If cherries are large, cut in half.
In the microwave, place ingredients in bowl, melt, in small increments, both chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk. Add cherry juice to thin to a spreadable consistency. You’ll need about 3 tbsp of the cherry juice.
Press a cherry into the center of each dough ball. Do not be afraid to press firmly.
Spoon 1 tsp of chocolate cherry frosting onto the top of each unbaked cookie. Place in the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees. The cookies will spread during baking. Serve ooey, gooey delicious y'all
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
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If you are a fan of chocolate and cherries (and who isn’t?) you’ve got to try these Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies. Fudgy, brownie-like cookies with a sweet cherry peeking through a drizzle of cherry infused chocolate frosting.
Chocolate Cherry Cookies | Chocolate Thumbprint Recipe | Christmas Cookies
Our Chocolate Cherry Cookies recipe makes delicious chocolate thumbprint cookies with maraschino cherries and are such a treat! Maraschino cherries are tucked into to rich chocolate butter cookies, baked and then covered with a chocolate cherry sauce. This chocolate cherry cookie recipe will make about 24 thumbprint cookies.
00:00 Chocolate Cherry Cookies
00:35 Ingredients for Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies With Cherries
01:00 Making Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
03:14 Adding Maraschino Cherries
04:03 Making Chocolate Cherry Coating
04:47 Covering Chocolate Cherry Cookies With Chocolate
Chocolate Cherry Cookies Ingredients
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
8 tablespoons salted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon almond extract
about 36 maraschino cherries, undrained
Chocolate Cherry Coating Ingredients
2 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons sugar
4 oz chocolate melting wafers, or chocolate chips
Chocolate Cherry Cookies Directions
In a large bowl, measure out 1 1/4 cups flour, ½ cup cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt. Give this a whisk to combine, and set it aside for later.
In a large bowl, add 8 tablespoons of softened butter, and use a hand or stand mixer to beat the butter for about a minute. Add 1 cup sugar and beat on medium speed for about 2 minutes until it’s light and fluffy, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl a few times.
Add one egg, a teaspoon of vanilla extract, and a teaspoon of almond extract, and beat on medium speed for about a minute until well blended, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Begin adding the flour mixture, start with tipping in a half and mixing.
Okay, once it’s mixed in, scrape down the bowl and add the rest of the flour. Mix just until incorporated. Take about a tablespoon of the dough and roll it between your hands to form balls that are about an inch in size. Space them on a parchment lined baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
Use your thumb to press a small indent into the top of each cookie, you could also use a round ½ teaspoon measure. Put a maraschino cherry, cut side down, in the indent of each cookie. Don’t drain the maraschino cherries from the jar, we’re going to use the juice to make the cherry chocolate coating. Once you’ve added all the cherries, chill the cookies for an hour.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the cookies into the 350 oven and bake for about 20 minutes, until the cookies are just set around the edges. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then on a wire rack.
While the cookies are cooling, combine 2 tablespoons of water, 2 tablespoons of the maraschino cherry juice, and two tablespoons of sugar in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, using a whisk to stir every so often. Bring the liquid to a simmer and once the sugar has dissolved, add about half of the chocolate wafers. If you don’t have chocolate wafers, you can also use chocolate chips. Stir to melt, add the rest of the chocolate, i’m using about ½ or 4 oz of chocolate. Once the chocolate has melted, remove from heat and let cool for a few minutes.
Spoon the melted cherry flavored chocolate over each cookie. Let the topping cool briefly, then add another layer of melted chocolate. I put these in the refrigerator to chill and harden the chocolate coating.
These chocolate cherry thumbprint cookies are part of our Christmas Cookie series, where we’ve got so many new flavors and favorite easy cookies for you. From thumbprints, pinwheels and butter cookies to gingersnaps, meringues, all kinds of icebox, rolled and drop cookies! I’m so excited to share all of them with you! Check the links below for recipe videos and playlists!
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Christmas Cookies Collection Playlist:
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Lemon Cookie Recipe:
Chocolate Pinwheels:
Jam Shortbread Cookies:
Christmas Cornflake Wreaths:
Red Velvet Cheesecake Cookies:
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
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These were good, but they were better without the chocolate covered cherry on it! Those were a bit too sweet. So my suggestion is to use your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and add the cocoa to it!
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