Ingredients

The following ingredients have 30 Servings
  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup cocoa
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons cherry juice (from maraschino cherry jar)
  • 30-36 jarred maraschino cherries
  • 1/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tablespoon cherry juice (from maraschino cherry jar)

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Cream butter and both sugars with a mixer. Add eggs one at a time and mix in.
  • Combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium bowl. Add 1/2 cup dry mixture to butter mixture at a time. Blending after each addition just until combined and scraping the side of the mixer bowl as needed. Add vanilla and 2 teaspoons of cherry juice and mix just until combined. Remove bowl from mixer and refrigerate for 30 minutes
  • Butter hands and roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Using your thumb, press a small indentation in the center of each cookie and place a maraschino cherry in the hole.
  • Bake for 10 minutes.
  • Melt chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk on low. When melted, add 1 tablespoon of cherry juice. Drizzle over cooled cookies.