Description
Delicious cherry cookies topped with chocolate kisses.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/4 cups unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 6 oz maraschino cherries (finely chopped)
- 5 tsp maraschino cherry juice
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp almond extract
- 8 drops red food coloring (optional)
- 24 pieces chocolate kisses (unwrapped and chilled)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Finely chop maraschino cherries and reserve the juice. Chill chocolate kisses.
- Cream butter, powdered sugar, salt, and baking powder until light and fluffy.
- Mix in cherry juice, vanilla extract, almond extract, and food coloring (if using).
- Gradually mix in 2 cups of flour until a soft dough forms.
- Fold in chopped cherries and remaining 1/2 cup flour until evenly combined.
- Chill dough for 10 minutes.
- Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place 1 inch apart on baking sheet.
- Bake for 10–12 minutes until cookies are set but still soft in the center.
- Immediately press a chilled chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie.
- Cool cookies on baking sheet for 2 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.
- Refrigerate cookies for 10 minutes to set the chocolate.
Notes
- For a festive twist, use different varieties of food coloring.
- Make sure chocolate kisses are chilled to maintain their shape when pressed into the warm cookies.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 100
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 5g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 15g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 20mg