Rich, chewy chocolate cookies with a hint of cherry flavor make these Cherry Cordial Cookies a must bake this holiday season.
When I was a kid every year at Christmas we used to exchange presents with our next door neighbors and every year we bought the husband of the family a tin of mixed nuts and they bought my dad a box of chocolate covered cherries. I cannot remember why, or if either of them even really liked nuts or cherries, but that was a constant for so many years. I wasn’t much of a fan of the actual cherry in the candy but have always loved the subtle cherry flavor of the cream inside. You can imagine my utter joy when Hershey’s started making the Cherry Cordial Kisses a few years back.
Okay, so I realize you may be thinking – another chocolate cookie? Yes. But these are different I promise. They are soft, rich, dark chocolate cookies filled with Cherry Cordial Hershey’s Kisses. So they are pretty much divine, I could eat the whole batch if I let myself. I know that I said I was trying to be healthier this year, I am, but sometimes a girl just needs a cookie. And there really is no better way to indulge your craving than with a fresh from the oven cookie. I hope you’ll enjoy them too; happy baking!
Dark Chocolate Cherry Cordial Cookies
Prep
Cook
Total
Yield 18 cookies
Ingredients
- 8 Tbs butter, softened
- 1/3 c sugar
- 1/3 c brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbs water
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 c flour
- 1/3 c dark dutch cocoa
- 1 tsp corn starch
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 24 Cherry Cordial Hershey's Kisses, chopped
Instructions
- In the bowl of your stand mixer cream together the butter and sugars for 3 minutes.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix well.
- In a mixing bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until it just comes together.
- Stir in the chopped Kisses.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat your oven to 350 F and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment.
- Scoop the dough into 1 1/2 Tbs balls and place 2" apart on the pans.
- Bake for 12-13 minutes.
- Remove from the oven carefully and cool on the pan 5 minutes, transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
Courses cookies, dessert
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they look yummy!
Thank you Dina!
These look so good, Emily! Anything with cherries and chocolate is a winner in my book! Pinned. Have a great week. PS, I can see your comments now…but I am sure you knew that since I just left a comment for you. 🙂
Ha ha Julie you crack me up! Thanks, I am a bit addicted to the combo right now as you may have noticed.
These look amazing!! I love the chocolate and cherry combo.
Thanks Zainab me too!
These look so yummy!!! I’m a huge chocolate/cherry fan, but haven’t heard about the cordial kisses before. I’ll have to look for them at the store!
Visiting from Link Party Palooza.
P.S. Love your blog name! So clever!
Thank you Stephanie, thanks for stopping by 🙂
Emily, these look so yummy!!! Pinning for later! Thank you for sharing them on Family Fun Friday!!! Blessings!
Thanks Diane 🙂
Hi Emily! These cookies sound so delicious and I absolutely love this flavor combination – it’s like a candy in a cookie! 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing your recipe at Best of the Weekend – pinned! Hope you are having a happy Saturday and enjoy your weekend!
Thank you so much Cindy, you too!
These cookies look delicious! They have the perfect flavor combination. Thanks for linking to the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. Hope to see you next week.
Thank you Cynthia!
Hi Emily!! I just wanted to let you know that I’m featuring your Dark Chocolate Cherry Cordial Cookies on my blog today!
http://www.theboldabode.com/2014/02/24-decadently-delicious-chocolate-treats.html
Thanks so much for linking up to Creativity Unleashed!
Thanks Gwen!
I am having a HUGE Sweet Tooth this week (well like the last 3 months actually) and these look so YUMMY! Just wanted to stop by to say “Thank You” for linking up to The Weekend re-Treat Link Party last weekend and to pin your post to our Party Boards while I was here!
Hope to see a few of your links tonight at 5pm MST when the party starts on The Best Blog Recipes!
Shauna
Thank you Shauna! I had the same problem with my last pregnancy (still do to be honest!)
Gwen thank you so much!