Recipe 1275 - Chocolate Cherry Cookies
Recipe 1275 - Chocolate Cherry Cookies
(by Shirley McNevich)
3/4 cup white sugar
1 stick butter (softened)
3 TBSP butter (softened)
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 - 12oz. bag Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 cups Quaker quick oats (uncooked)
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 - 10oz. jars maraschino cherries (drained, then patted dry with
paper towels)
In a mixer add white sugar and all of the butter--beat. Add eggs and
vanilla--beat. Pour 1 cup of the chocolate bits into a microwave safe
bowl--melt them in the microwave. Pour melted chocolate in to the
batter--beat. Add quick oats, baking powder and salt--beat. Slowly
add flour--beat. Cover the mixer bowl with Saran wrap and refrigerate
for 4 hours. Remove batter from refrigerator. Shape the cookie dough
into 1" size balls. Place cookie balls on to greased cookie sheets.
Place one cherry on to each cookie ball and using your thumb press
down on the cherry until the cookie flattens. Bake at 350 degrees for
10-12 minutes or until cookies are set. Cool completely, and then melt
remaining chocolate chips. Drizzle melted chocolate on to the cooled
cookies.
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This recipe is from Shirley McNevich's first Mom's Best Recipes Volume 5. Published here with permission.
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