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Cookies • A family favorite

2020 Cookbook

Chocolate Cherry Cookies AKA Sweet Cherry Meri’s

Recipe by Meri Brown

Heat
350°F
Time
8–10 min
Makes
3 dozen

Makes 3 dozen

01

Ingredients

  • ½ cup soft butter
  • ¼ tsp. Salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¼ tsp. baking powder
  • 1 egg
  • ¼ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 ½ tsp. Vanilla
  • 1 16-oz. jar maraschino cherries, save
  • 1 ½ cups flour
  • juice but drain cherries on paper towel
  • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa Fudge frosting (below)

02

Method

  1. 01

    In mixer, cream butter, sugar, egg, vanilla until light and fluffy. Add remaining ingredients. Blend at low speed till dough is still (1 min.). Shape dough to balls. Place 2” appart on greased sheet. Put one marachino cherry in the middle of each ½ way deep. Prepare frosting and spread over each cherry. Bake 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes till puffy.

  2. 02

    Frosting - ¼ tsp salt 1 cup semisweeet chocolate chips 1 to 1 ½ tsp cherry juice ½ cup sweet condensed milk

  3. 03

    In a small heavy saucepan over low heat, melt chips with milk, stirring constantly.

  4. 04

    Remove from heat, add remaining ingredients. Stir till smooth and glossy. Cover cookies immediately as this hardens quickly.