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Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

type: formed
makes: unknown

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla
10 ounces jar maraschino cherries
6 ounces chocolate chips
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk

Preheat oven to 350F.
Sift together flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda, set aside.
Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla.
Stir in dry ingredients.
Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place on and ungreased cookie sheet.
Press down the center with your thumb.
Drain cherries, reserve juice.
Place a cherry in the center of each cookie.
In a small saucepan, combine chocolate chips and milk until chocolate has melted.
Stir in 1 tablespoon of the reserved cherry juice.
Stir in 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate-milk over each cherry.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Transfer to wire racks to cool.

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Jennifer Hoffmann from Cedar Rapids, IA.
My Grandma used to make these cookies when I was young, which really isn't all that long ago. My family loved them. I finally asked her for the recipe and then just found it again here. These are one of my favorite cookies, tying only with Chocolate Chip cookies.