Chocolate Cherry Cookies
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Ingredients
  • Cookie:
  • ¾ cups sugar
  • ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • ½ cup margarine or butter, softened
  • ½ tsp almond extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1¾ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ cup unsweetned cocoa
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ cup milk
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • 18 to 20 large marshmallows, halved
  • 18-20 maraschino cherries, halved, drained
  • Frosting:
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 T butter
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 3 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted
  • 5 to 6 T. water
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. In large bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar, ½ cup butter, almond extract and egg and blend well.
  3. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off. In small bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; blend well.
  4. Add flour to sugar mixture alternately with milk, mixing well after each addition. Sitr in Walnuts.
  5. Drop by rounded Tablespoons 2 inches apart into ungreased cookie sheets. Firmly press cherry half, cut side down, into top of each cookie.
  6. Bake at 375 for 6-8 minutes.
  7. Firmly press marshmallow half, cut side down, over cherry on top of each hot cookie.
  8. Bake an additional 2 minutes or until marshmallows are puffed.
  9. Let cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets. cool completely.
  10. In small bowl, combine all frosting ingredients, adding enough water for desired spreading consistency. Blend until smooth.
  11. Frost top of each cookie with about 2 teaspoonfuls frosting covering marshmallow completely.
  12. If frosting becomes too thick to spread easily, stir in a few more drops of water. Also, make sure all of the marshmallow is covered completely with frosting....unless they are going to be eaten immediately....otherwise the marshmallow will get dried out.
Recipe by JOYFUL scribblings at https://www.joyfulscribblings.com/2014/02/chocolate-cherry-cookies/