1986 Winner: Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Keys: Cookies Holiday
Yield: 48
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup Flour
1/2 cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/4 tsp Baking soda
1/2 cup Butter or margarine,
Softened
1 cup Sugar
1 x Egg
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
48 x Maraschino cherries
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6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup Sweetened condensed milk
Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)
Method:
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 therein-and no requirement to share them with anyone.
"Taste and calories have kept me away from the box of delights for many
years, even after the incredible discovery that Brach's actually sold
these morsels all year long. (How my parents managed to deceive me on
this, I'll never know.) That is, until my mother-in-law came to Chicago
one autumn with the ultimate cookie. A Christmas tradition in one bite.
Nostalgia from the oven. Capable of reducing this 36-year-old woman's
taste buds and mentality to that of my 9-year-old daughter. A
chocolate-covered cherry cookie!"
I'm in my own little world, but thats ok everybody knows me here
Angelique
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