Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
These chocolate covered cherry cookies have a soft chocolate cookie base and a thumbprint of chocolate and a maraschino cherry!
Equipment
- Hand or stand mixer
- medium mixing bowls
- Measuring cups and spoons
- piping bag (optional)
- silicone spatula
- Cookie sheet
Ingredients
For the chocolate cookies
- ¾ cup unsalted butter softened
- 1¼ cup light brown sugar packed
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 egg
- ⅓ cup semi-sweet chocolate (melted), 2 ounces
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
For the cookie topping
- 50 maraschino cherries (stemless)
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate melted, 4 ounces
Instructions
To make the chocolate cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees (use convection bake if you have it).
- Using a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or a hand mixer beat softened butter and brown sugar on high for 1-2 minutes. Scrape down the bowl once complete.
- Add in milk, egg, and melted chocolate. Mix until combined. Scrape down the bowl once complete.
- In separate bowl, whisk dry ingredients together (flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt).
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in 2-3 portions. Mix until combined, scrape down the bowl once complete.
- Roll the dough into small 1-inch dough balls and place them on a well-greased cookie sheet (you can also line the cookie sheet with parchment paper). Each cookie should be at least 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the top of the cookies just begins to crack.
- Remove them from the oven and use a teaspoon measuring spoon to add a 'thumbprint' in each cookie. Do this immediately when they come out of the oven.
To assemble the cookies
- Drain the maraschino cherries and pour them onto some paper towels to dab off any excess liquid.
- Allow the chocolate cookies to cool to room temperature, then spoon a small amount of chocolate (about ½ a teaspoon) into the thumbprint of about 10 cookies.
- Place one maraschino cherry on top of the melted chocolate (the chocolate acts as a 'glue' for the cherry).
- Repeat the above steps, spooning the melted chocolate into about 10 cookies at a time, then adding maraschino cherries until you have covered each cookie.
- Use the remaining melted chocolate to drizzle over the top of each cookie. Place the chocolate in a piping bag or ziploc bag and cut a very thin tip to drizzle the chocolate for best results.
- Allow the chocolate to set, then enjoy!