1 cup white sugar, ½ cup butter, 1 egg, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract, 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon baking powder, 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, ½ cup sweetened condensed milk, 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Use an electric mixer to cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until light, then beat in the egg and vanilla. Incorporate the flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda, and baking powder until the dough is smooth. Shape the dough into walnut-sized balls and place them 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Use your thumb to make an indentation in each ball. Drain the cherries, keeping the juice, and place one cherry in each cookie center. In a saucepan over low heat, melt chocolate chips with condensed milk and stir in 4 teaspoons of the reserved cherry juice. Spoon about 1 teaspoon of the mixture over each cherry. Bake for 10 minutes and let the cookies rest on the sheets before cooling completely on a wire rack.
Nutrition
Total Fat 9g 12%, Saturated Fat 6g 28%, Cholesterol 17mg 6%, Sodium 100mg 4%, Total Carbohydrate 36g 13%, Dietary Fiber 2g 6%, Protein 3g, Vitamin C 0mg 1%, Calcium 39mg 3%, Iron 1mg 7%, Potassium 159mg 3%
