These chocolate cherry cookies taste as good as they sound!

Ingreadient

• 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

Direction

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
2. Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Stir in flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder until smooth. Roll dough into walnut-size balls and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Make an indentation with your thumb in the center of each cookie.
3. Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place a cherry in the indentation of each cookie ball.
4. Combine chocolate chips with condensed milk in a saucepan over low heat; stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in 4 teaspoons of cherry juice. Drizzle or spoon about 1 teaspoon of chocolate cherry mixture over each cherry to cover.
5. Bake in the preheated for 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets briefly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

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