Dark Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies are a chocolate cookie base with a maraschino cherry on top, covered with cherry chocolate glaze, and then baked. These cookies are festive decorated with sprinkles!
My good friend Melissa told me about these Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies she discovered from her coworker. Her description alone was enough - I had to make them.
Bob and my dad both love chocolate-covered cherries, so I knew these cookies would go over well with them. I was surprised by how much I liked them - they are fantastic!!!
The cookie part itself is so good, I would be happy with those alone, but the cherry-chocolate glaze is amazing, and I actually enjoyed the maraschino cherry (which I typically don't eat).
I used dark chocolate cocoa powder and bittersweet chocolate for the glaze to make these Dark Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies, but you can certainly use semisweet or even milk chocolate.
Each cookie has an entire maraschino cherry inside and covered with the glaze before baking.
I originally made these cookies for Christmas, so I decorated half of them with Christmas sprinkles, but these cookies would be great for Valentine's Day. They would look so cute with some heart-shaped sprinkles! (See Update below!)
UPDATE: I made these for a Valentine Tea Party, and they looked so cute with Valentine's sprinkles! Shown below with Nut Free Linzer Cookies and the BEST Oatmeal Cookies.
Gluten Free Option
I have not tried it myself yet, but these cookies could be made with gluten free flour such as Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour.
Looking for more cookies?
Check out all of my Cookie recipes HERE.
Some of my favorite Christmas Cookies:
Santa's Whiskers Cookies
Butter Cookies
Oatmeal Cookies
[Not My] Granny's Sugar Cookies
Want more cherry recipes?
Check out these recipes featuring cherries:
Sweet Cherry Pie
Cherry Chocolate Cheesecake Bundt Cake
Cherry Cordial Mice
Mini New York Cheesecakes
No Bake Banana Split Cake
Roasted Cherry Brownies with Cherry Port Sauce
📖 Recipe
Dark Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies:
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour or gluten free flour
- ½ cup unsweetened dark or regular cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup butter, at room temperature (1 stick)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1 10-ounce jar maraschino cherries, drained (reserve juice for topping)
Glaze:
- 6- ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
- juice reserved from jar of cherries
Instructions
Make the Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda, blending well; set aside.1 ½ cups all purpose flour or gluten free flour, ½ cup unsweetened dark or regular cocoa powder, ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- In a mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar on low speed until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Gradually add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture; beat until smooth and well blended.½ cup butter, at room temperature, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 egg, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- With hands, shape dough into 1-inch balls; place on ungreased baking sheet. Press down center of dough with thumb. Drain maraschino cherries well, reserving juice. Place a cherry in the center indention of each cookie.1 10-ounce jar maraschino cherries, drained
Make the Glaze:
- In small saucepan, combine chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk; heat on low until chocolate is melted. Stir in 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon of the reserved cherry juice. If frosting seems too thick to spoon over cookies, thin with a little more cherry juice.6- ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chips, ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
- Spoon about 1 teaspoon of the topping over each cherry, spreading to cover cherry.
Bake the Cookies:
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes, or until done. Remove to wire rack to cool. Store in airtight container.
Blog is the New Black says
Wow, lovin' this idea! This looks amazing!
CT says
As an official taster, I gave this one a thumbs up, too.
Lisa says
I can only imagine how delicious it would be to bite into that with so much chocolate flavor. They sound like a great cookie. I'm starting a new linky on my blog this Saturday called "Sweets for a Saturday." I'd like to invite you to come by then and link this up.
Leslie says
Well Melissa must be a great friend for telling you about these!!!! AMAZING
Kerstin says
These would be perfect for VDay! I just spontaneously bought some pink and white heart sprinkles and now need to figure out what I'm going to make with them - maybe these 🙂
Cara says
ooh, these look phenomenal! Love cherries and chocolate together 🙂
CaSaundraLeigh says
Oo I just made some Dark Chocolate Cherry cupcakes the other day--two great (hungry haha) minds think alike!!!
Elizabeth Frick says
I found you via Stef Pollack at The Cupcake Project, and thank goodness I did! I am positively drooling over your sweet treats!