Double Chocolate Cabernet Cherry Cookies Food

CHERRY DOUBLE-CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees with racks in upper and lower thirds.
• Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
• Beat together butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, then add eggs one at a time, beating until combined well. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture, mixing until just combined. Add chocolate chunks, pecans, and cherries and mix until just incorporated.
• Drop two level TBLE of dough per cookie about two inches apart onto two ungreased large baking sheets. With dampened fingers, flatten cookies slightly.
• Bake, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until puffed and set, 12-14 minutes. Transfer cookies to a rack to cool.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, beat sugar, butter, milk, almond extract, and egg with an electric mixer until smooth.
• Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Drop by rounded tablespoons about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake 10-12 minutes or until no longer shiny.
• Immediately remove from cookie sheet and place on cooling rack.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Combine flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda in a bowl. In a bowl of an electric mixer, or with a handheld mixer, combine butter and sugars until fluffy. Add egg, vanilla, and wine and combine. Slowly in batches add the flour mixture until just combined. Fold in the chocolate and cherries. On a nonstick cookie sheet, place a heaping tablespoon of dough for each cookie about 2 inches apart from each other. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until tops are still soft looking but edges look firm.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHERRY DROPS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°.
• Combine 1 cup butter, brown sugar and sugar large mixer bowl.
• Add egg and almond extract; continue beating until well mixed.
• Reduce speed to low.
• Add flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt beat until well mixed.
• Stir in chocolate chips and ½ cup cherries by hand drop dough by level tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake for 12 to 14 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• Melt chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter in 1 quart saucepan over medium low heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth.
• Combine chocolate mixture and powdered sugar in small bowl.
• Stir half & half and reserved cherry juice until smooth.
• If frosting is too thick, stir in additional cherry juice.
• Frost cooled cookies.
• Place 1 cherry half in center of each cookie.
• Let stand on waxed paper until set.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat sugar, butter, milk, almond extract and egg with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched in center and surface is no longer shiny. Immediately remove from cookie sheet; place on cooling rack.

CHOCOLATE CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour and cocoa; set aside.
• Beat butter in a med bowl on med speed until softened.
• Add sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• Beat until well mixed.
• Beat in egg and vanilla, scraping the side of the bowl.
• Gradually beat in flour mixture.
• Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
• Place 2-inches apart on an ungreased cooking sheet.
• Press down the centers with your thumb.
• Drain cherries, reserving juice.
• Place a cherry in the center of each cookie in the depression you made with your thumb.
• Combine chocolate pieces and condensed milk in a small saucepan.
• Cook and stir over low heat until the chocolate is melted.
• Stir in 4 teaspoons of the reserved cherry juice.
• Spoon about 1 teaspoon of the chocolate and milk mixture over each cherry, spreading to cover cherry.
• If the frosting is too thick, thin with additional cherry juice.
• Bake in a 350°F oven for about 10 minutes or until edges of cookie is firm.
• Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute.
• Transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CRANBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two cookie sheets.
• Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.
• Cream butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together with an electric mixer in a large bowl. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition. Mix in vanilla extract. Gradually add flour mixture until combined. Mix in cranberries and chocolate chips.
• Place rounded tablespoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Flatten each ball slightly with a fork.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are soft and tops are no longer glossy, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet, then remove to a cooling rack to cool completely.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CABERNET CHERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• In a small bowl soak cranberries in wine for 5-10 minutes.
• In a large bowl, cream sugars and Smart Balance.
• Add egg and vanilla; beat well.
• Make a well in the center of the bowl and combine dry ingredients, then incorporate into sugar mixture.
• Fold in chocolate and cranberries.
• Drop in even tablespoons onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake 8-10 minutes then cool.