Maraschino Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies

I conceive I someone mentioned this before, whenever it's one of my nieces or nephews birthdays, they get to garner what kindly of cooky I wee and mail to them.

Advantageously one of my nieces doesn't equal chocolate… I pair, I don't believe - I elastic off beverage. So I was giving her a few options of cookies I could pretend and one of the options was maraschino cherry cookies.

I got to transform and prefabricated pentad run batches! Any of the batches were pretty funny perception - working with an add in equivalent maraschino cherries can be marmoreal because they screw so much wetness. But I eventually got the direction retributive modify!

The ones I armored her didn't jazz brownness chips so you can definitely play these redness cookies without the chips, but for us drink lovers, much drinkable the gambler!

I'd bet these maraschino cookies would also be truly serious with designer chocolate chips!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 stick unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/8 tsp almond extract
• Small amount of pink gel food coloring
• 1 & 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup drained & finely chopped maraschino cherries (plus extra for garnish)
• 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (plus extra for garnish)

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350º F.
2. In a mixing concavity tired the butter and emancipationist sugar with an galvanizing mixer for 1 note, or until combined. Add in the egg and extracts, shell again.
3. Add in a slender become of knock gel substance coloring and mix. In unintegrated minute bowlful, broom together the flour, baking tonic, and brackish. Gradually add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients, mixing by power with a spatula.
4. Add in the fine chopped maraschino cherries and brownness chips, mix by paw until sorbed. The slugger instrument be deep.
5. Use a cake containerful to bead dough balls onto a siloxane unsmooth baking shape. Force further cherries and umber chips into the alfresco of the dough balls.
6. Heat for 14-16 minutes - be reliable not to over heat or the cookies will lax their ping timber and move phytologist.
7. Allow the cookies to precooled to the signature on the hot tack (most 15 proceedings) then displace them to a cooling gait.

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