A super cute cherry-flavored cookies to share with your true love or share with family and friends!
Course Cookies, Desserts
Cuisine American
Keyword cherry cookies, valentine chocolate, valentine cookies
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Cooling Time in Fridge 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 50 minutesminutes
Servings 24
Calories 180kcal
Author Trish Sutton
Equipment
Oven
Cookie Sheet
Parchment Paper
Mixing bowl
Electric Mixer
Cooking Rack
Ingredients
6ounceJar Maraschino Cherries18-20 cherries - approx. 1/4 cup finely diced
24Dark Chocolate Hershey’s Kisses
or Dove Chocolate Heart Shaped Candy
1CupButtersoftened
1CupPowdered Sugar
1/2TeaspoonSalt
1TeaspoonBaking Powder
4TeaspoonsMaraschino Cherry Juicefrom jar
1TeaspoonVanilla
8Drops of Red Food Coloring
2 1/2CupsFlourdivided
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper then set aside.
Next, finely dice cherries then set them aside. (Save cherry juice.)
Unwrap chocolates and refrigerate them.
In a medium mixing bowl cream butter and powdered sugar then add salt and baking powder. Continue to cream with an electric mixer until a creamy consistency is achieved.
Stir in cherry juice, vanilla and food coloring then stir until well combined.
Mix 2 cups of flour into the creamed mixture and continue to mix until dough is formed.
Fold in diced cherries. Then add the remaining 1/2 cup of flour. Use your hands to blend the flour into the dough.
Chill dough in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Roll the dough into one inch balls then place them on the prepared baking sheet. Do not flatten the dough balls on the pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Remove the pan from the oven then immediately press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie. Allow the cookies to rest on the pan for two minutes then move them to a cooling rack.
Place cookies in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to ensure the chocolate has set.
Store them at room temperature in an airtight container.