1-1/2 c Flour
1/2 c Unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 ts Salt
1/4 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Baking soda
1/2 c Butter or margarine, softened
1 c Sugar
1 ea Egg
1 1/2 ts Vanilla
48 ea Maraschino cherries, reserve juice
Frosting:
6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 c Sweetened condensed milk
Maraschino Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)
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. 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.
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.
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.
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