A couple of years ago an acquaintance of mine shared this amazing ‘recipe’ for making the most addictive cookies I have ever had using premade chocolate chip cookie dough. It was too simple not to try plus it included using maraschino cherries, a guilty pleasure of mine. I will forever be indebted to her. 🙂
Ingredients:
– Your favorite pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough
– One jar of Maraschino Cherries (or a basically a handful of cherries adjusting in the future for your preference and what you can actually get in the cookie)
– One bag of your favorite nuts to use with cookies, crushed
Why yes, as a matter of fact I am a fan of generic brands. 😛
Directions:
I have found that though it can become quite sticky it is best to have your dough closer to room temperature so it is more pliable.
1. Chop up your cherries; they can be finely chopped or you can cut them in quarters.When making these I have always found the halves are still too big to work the dough over and it may create openings but feel free to give it a go with halved cherries if you like, it might work with a ‘jumbo’ type size cookie.
2. If you did not purchase pre-crushed nuts do so now. How small you want to get the crumbs down to is your choice, but it seems like they fall off when I leave them too big.
3. Create a bowl shape with your cookie dough to place the cherries then pull the dough over creating a ball shape.
4. Roll the cookie ball into your crushed nuts. I used walnuts here.
5. Place your cookie balls on a cookie sheet spaced as you normally would, and follow the cooking instructions on your dough’s packaging. I have found that while the cooking times usually work fine to get a browner cookie, you need to keep them in a bit longer (anywhere from 2-4 minutes). Just keep an eye on them.
I promise if you like maraschino cherries even a little bit you will find these cookies delightful. Perhaps you won’t gorge on them Cookie Monster syle the way I do, but I think you will be happy to indulge in one or two or ten.
What is your favorite easy peasy cookie recipe?
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