Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies Ii

Ingredients

• Servings: 18
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
• 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Recipe

• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (180 degrees c).
• beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl. add egg and vanilla and beat well. add the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and stir until smooth. roll the mixture into 1-inch balls about the size of a walnut (larger if desired). place on ungreased cookie sheet. press center of each ball with thumb.
• drain cherries and reserve juice. place a cherry in indentation of each cookie ball.
• in a saucepan, heat condensed milk and chocolate chips until chips are melted. stir in 4 teaspoons of cherry juice. spoon about 1 teaspoon of mixture over each cherry and spread to cover cherry. (more cherry juice may be added to keep frosting of spreading consistency.)
• bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes.