Chocolate covered cherry cookies

1 ½ cups Flour

½ cup Unsweetened cocoa powder

¼ tablespoon Salt

¼ tablespoon Baking powder

¼ tablespoon Baking soda

½ cup Butter or margarine, Softened

1 cup Sugar

1 Egg

1 ½ teaspoons Vanilla

48 Maraschino cherries

Frosting

6 ounces Semisweet chocolate chips

½ cup Sweetened condensed milk

Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)



1. In bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla to butter-sugar mixture and beat well. Gradually add dry ingredients to butter-sugar mixture and beat until well blended.



2. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and push down center of each ball with thumb. Drain cherries and reserve juice. Place 1 cherry in center of each indentation. Heat oven to 350℉.



3. For frosting, put chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk in small saucepan. Heat until chocolate melts. Stir in 4 teaspoons cherry juice. If too thick, add more juice.



4. Spoon 1 teaspoon frosting over each cherry. Spread to cover cherry. Bake 10 minutes or until done. Do not overcook. Remove to wire rack and cool. The cookies freeze nicely.