Festive Chewy Cherry Cookies Recipes

FESTIVE CHEWY CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, then blend in juice from drained cherries and extract.
• Mix in flour until combined then stir in coconut and cherries.
• Shape the dough into rolls in plastic wrap(this will be very sticky!) and place in fridge for a few hours until firm (or freeze until needed).
• Preheat oven to 380°F
• remove from fridge and slice into rounds and place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for about 10-12 minutes.
• I did mine convection at 360 for about 10 minutes also.
• Bake until edges are slightly brown.

CHEWY CHOCOLATE-CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• Beat brown sugar, shortening, and eggs in a large bowl with an electric mixer until well combined. Mix in milk, vanilla, and almond extract. Add flour mixture gradually, beating well after each addition. Stir in cherries and chocolate chunks.
• Place dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Drop heaping tablespoons of dough 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the edges are golden, 8 to 10 minutes, switching racks halfway through.

FESTIVE CHERRYETTES

Steps:

• Blend together shortening, butter, salt, sugar and vanilla.
• Add flour and pecans and mix into a soft dough.
• Chill.
• Preheat oven to 325° F and grease cookie sheets.
• Measure out level tablespoonfuls of dough and roll between palms of hands to form round balls.
• Place on greased cookie sheets.
• Press a little indentation in center in each cookie with a thimble and put half of cherry on top.
• Bake in preheated 325 oven for 25 minutes.

BURIED CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Drain cherries, reserving juice. Halve any large cherries.
• In a medium mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer, on medium to high speed, for 30 seconds.
• Add the sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl.
• Beat in egg and vanilla until combined.
• Beat in cocoa powder, and as much of the flour as you can with mixer.
• Stir in remaining flour using a wooden spoon.
• Shape dough into 1" balls.
• Place balls about 2" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Press your thumb into the center of each ball. Place a cherry in each center.
• For Frosting:.
• In a small saucepan combine chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk.
• Cook and stir, over low heat, until chocolate is melted.
• Stir in 4 teaspoons reserved cherry juice.
• Spoon 1 teaspoon frosting over each cherry, spreading to cover (frosting may be thinned with additional cherry juice, if necessary).
• Bake for 10 minutes, or until edges are firm. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet.
• Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool.
• Note:
• For best results DO NOT substitute imitation chocolate pieces.