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 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!
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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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- 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
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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.
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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.
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Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack to finish cooling.
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Melt chocolate Candiquik according to package directions. Drizzle over cookies. Let the chocolate set and serve immediately or store in an air tight container.
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Cami J. says
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!
Julie Evink says
I’m sorry Cami! Other people have entered it and it works. Have you tried logging out of the entry form or switching browsers?
Cami J. says
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!
Julie Evink says
I just pushed a thumbprint into them. I did not flatten them out. I’m not sure why yours did not work!
Kittery says
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.
Julie Evink says
Glad you enjoyed them Kittery!!
Alyssa @ Piece of Home says
I love cherry sauce! How amazing are these!? Love finding wonderful things like these!