From the December 2008 issue of "Family Circle" magazine
Makes 15 jumbo cookies
Prep: 15 minutes
Refrigerate 2 hours
Bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes
To basic sugar cookie dough, add 1/4 cup cocoa powder to flour mixture. Add an additional 1/2 C (1 stick) unsalted butter, and add 1/2 t cherry extract when adding the vanilla.
Stir in 6 oz semisweet chocolate chunks, 1/2 C cherry-flavored sweetened dried cranberries and 1/2 C chopped walnuts with flour mixture. Refrigerate dough 2 hours.
With a measuring cup or ice-cream scoop, drop 1/4-cup mounds onto 2 ungreased baking sheets. Gently press down with palm of your hand into 3" disks.
Bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes until set. Let cool on sheets 3 minutes. Gently remove to cooling rack to cool completely.
Wrap in clear bags and tie with holiday ribbon, if desired.
Per cookie: 288 calories; 18 g fat (10 g sat.)
1 comment:
My husband loves both cherry and chocolate . This sounds like a wonderful combination of both . Will let you know how it goes at the end .
Leona Carlin
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