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Buried Cherry Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 (10 oz) jar maraschino cherries, reserve juice
½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
1 egg
1½ tsp vanilla
½ cup cocoa powder
1½ cups flour
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces
½ cup sweetened condensed milk
Directions:
Directions:
Drain cherries, reserve juice. Halve large cherries. In a medium mixing bowl beat butter until creamy. Add sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl. Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Beat in cocoa powder and as much of the flour as you can with a mixer. Stir in remaining flour by hand. Shape dough into one inch balls. Place balls about 2-in apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press your thumb into the center of each ball. Place a cherry in each center.
Frosting:. In a small saucepan combined chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk. Cook and stir over low heat until chocolate is melted. Stir in 4 teaspoons of the reserve cherry juice. Spoon a teaspoon of frosting over each cherry. Spreading to cover. Bake cookies at 350° for 10 minutes or until edges are firm. Cool one minute on cookie sheet before removing to a rack to cool..

 

 

 

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