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Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies
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Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies ~ Soft, Chocolate Cookies filled with Cherry Pie Filling and Drizzled with Chocolate!
*I was compensated by Lucky Leaf to create this post. All opinions expressed are completely my own.
As Valentine’s Day nears I’m seeing all kind of Chocolate and Cherry treats like my Chocolate Covered Cherries Recipe around the blogging land. They bring me back to memories of my childhood. For some reason I always remember eating those chocolate covered cherries with the white “goo” in them with my dad! Oh how I loved those little treats. I think it was because no one else in the house would touch them but us. Not that we minded of course because there were more for us! I will never forget how we devoured that sacred box of treats!
Do you have treats that remind you of your childhood?
I’m thinking that Miss K might have an abundance of treats in her childhood memory bank. Take for example these tastey Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies. After I got done making them I was ready to take some pretty amazing pictures, hint of sarcasm here. Miss K was following me around so when I said let’s go take pictures she ran over to the “picture” spot and was waiting for me. She usually grabs some paper straws to help stage with, but she skipped those this time.
Instead she grabbed her chair. She as going to take all this in from the comfort of her own chair. So we went about our business and of course she starts saying, “Cookie? Cookie? Mommy?” while batting her eyelashes.
I crumbled and handed her a cookie.
Now before you get all, “Oh my goodness Julie only feeds her child sweets” on me. I’m going to tell you, yes my daughter has sweets. She ate exactly one bit of this cookie, somehow smeared chocolate all over her face while eating this one bite. Don’t ask me how? Then she promptly got distracted and wandered off.
About these cookies. To die for. Amazingness. Let the angels sing in the heavens.
Soft chocolate cookies. Cherries waiting for you in the middle. Chocolate drizzled over the top.
Yes. Wipe that drool off your chin.
Then go find your Lucky Leaf Cherry Pie Filling and grab the ingredients to make these treats. Your loved ones will thank you.
Your hips…might not so much.
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Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies
Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies ~ Soft, Chocolate Cookies filled with Cherry Pie Filling and Drizzled with Chocolate!
Print Pin RatePrep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 32 minutes
Servings: 36 Cookies
Calories: 216kcal
Ingredients
- 1 c. butter room temperature
- 2 c. white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3 c. flour
- 1 c. cocoa
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 21 oz Lucky Leaf cherry pie filling
- 2 oz Chocolate Candiquik
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla and mix until combined. Add cocoa, salt, baking soda, baking powder and flour. Mix until combined.
- Roll dough into 2 in. balls. Place on greased baking sheet or baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Press thumb into center of cookie to make a well. Place two cherries in each cookie.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack to finish cooling.
- Melt chocolate Candiquik according to package directions. Drizzle over cookies. Let the chocolate set and serve immediately or store in an air tight container.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 216kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 105mg | Potassium: 150mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 210IU | Vitamin C: 0.6mg | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1.9mg
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Oh sweet Mamma!
These are some seriously gorgeous thumbprint cookies!! The gorgeous cherry against the chocolate is calling my name!
Yes it is Jocelyn!
Chocolate and cherry is one of my favorite flavor combos!
Mine too Shaina!
These cookies look marvelous Julie! You know how I am about my cherry and chocolate 🙂 Pinned and sharing on FB!
Thanks so much for sharing Trish!
Wow – that second photo of cookies is screaming at me to eat them, lol. Pinning and sharing!
You could road trip to get some 🙂
Oh my word, Julie, they look heavenly. I can hardly wait to make them! Thank you for blessing us time after time!!
Thanks Cordelia!
There’s just not enough time to make all the wonderful recipes I find 🙂 These are so pretty and so Valentine Day-ish! (what we would do without Pinterest to be our online recipe collector?)
Isn’t that the truth! I wish I could just bake all day long so I could try them all out!
Now that is one picture perfect cookie. But not pretty enough to keep me from inhaling too many of them…yum!
Thanks Nicole!
Such a gorgeous cookie, Julie!!
Thanks Becca!
Oh yes PLEEEEASE I’ll take a dozen!
Sounds good Hayley!
Wonderful looking cookies, and I’m all ready to bake, but please..forgive me if I seem like an idiot, but what is Chocolate Candiquik, and where do find it?
Thank-you for your help!!
It will be by the Almond Bark and if you can’t find it you can sub it for Chocolate Almond Bark!
Oh my, Julie! First, let’s PLEASE not talk about how many sweets our children eat. I win. Second, these cookies are amazing!
Haha ok I surrender!
Gorgeous!! Send some my way!
On their way!
You had me and ‘Chocolate Cherry’! {no, seriously, you did!} Thanks for sharing at Wednesday Whatsits – I always love your stuff!
Of course Rachel! Thanks for hosting again 🙂
I am making these now. They look so yummy. I am trying to enter the Lucky Leaf contest but none of the buttons are working to do the Facebook likes or he twitter. Can you check the links to make sure they are working and I can try again? There are only 4 days left to enter. Thanks!
I’m sorry Cami! Other people have entered it and it works. Have you tried logging out of the entry form or switching browsers?
will try! Cookies were good but a bit dry and you said to make them into 2″ balls and them a thumbprint in the middle but your cookies are much flatter than that and they don’t spread much in the oven so mine came out a bit higher and fatter not as flat. The recipe should include that you flatten he balls and then make a thumbprint. Just a suggestion!
I just pushed a thumbprint into them. I did not flatten them out. I’m not sure why yours did not work!
Hello! I just made this tonight and they are fantastic! I think my cookies were considerably smaller, as my cookie scoop is only about a 1 tbsp scoop.
They came out fantastic! I got about 48 cookies from the batch. I gave some to mom/dad-in law, husband and grandma. Everyone loved them, and my brothers couldn’t stay away.
Home run. Not dry at all as some have suggested, though mine didn’t spread at all, so I just patted them down a little while I filled them with the cherries.
Glad you enjoyed them Kittery!!
I love cherry sauce! How amazing are these!? Love finding wonderful things like these!
Curious if these can be frozen? – Thinking make ahead for Christmas baking.
They probably could be frozen but I have not tried it. As always, they will be much better served fresh.