This year I started my holiday baking with a different take on my favourite cookie from last year, the chocolate and maraschino cherry shortbread cookies, except that this time I used the same cherry and chocolate flavour combo in chocolate chip cookies! You really just cannot go wrong with chocolate chip cookies and throwing cherries into the mix will only make things better since the chocolate and cherry combo is a fabulous one! One of the best things about homemade chocolate chip cookies, other than the fact that they are so ridiculously addictively good, is that they are so easy to make. You literally just need to spend about 5 minutes combining ingredients and then you throw them in the oven. The hardest part about making them is waiting for them to finish baking, and that 10 minutes of bake time will seem like an eternity as your kitchen starts to fill up with the aroma of fresh baked cookies, and then you have to wait for them to cool, but then again that burnt tongue might just be worth it! For these maraschino cherry chocolate chip cookies you will also have to chop up some cherries but that only takes a few more minutes and it is definitely worth the effort!
Perfect with a tall glass of milk!
Maraschino Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies never had it any better than with the addition of maraschino cherries!
ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup maraschino cherries, chopped
directions
- Mix the butter and sugars in a bowl, beat in the egg followed by the vanilla extract.
- Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in another bowl.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet until they are just incorporated.
- Mix in the chocolate and the maraschino cherries.
- Place the dough onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet one tablespoon at a time and bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until just lightly golden brown around the edges, about 8-10 minutes, let cool on sheet for 2 minutes and transfer to cooling rack to cool completely.
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Wow! Great-looking cookies, Kevin! Love the specks of red! 🙂
Love cherry and chocolate together!
I agree – cherry and chocolate are always great together. Love how the maraschino lends a bright burst of color.
How creative to use maraschino cherries! Cherries and chocolate a great combo!
You are brilliant! This looks like the perfect Christmas cookie! I think these will make the list for our Christmas Eve Party, thank you!
A very festive cookie Kevin!
Such a great idea! They look amazing.
Love the addition of maraschino cherries. It makes the cookies look so festive. My Mom always bakes a banana cake with chocolate and maraschino cherries this time of year that I love. It makes me think it would be fun to do a cookie variation with the same flavors.
Look awesome, Kevin. I am going back to making your Maraschino Shortbread again this year.
So festive!! What a great cookie. Nothing beat chocolate chip!
This looks just perfect! will definitely try this:)
The cherries add such a festive look to the cookies!!
The cherries really do make them so Christmasy!
Thank you for this great suggestion! Sometimes it truly is the simple tweak that makes all the difference. Here's hoisting a cup of hot tea w/to you! timberdawn
These cherry cookies look perfect! I'll try the recipe for sure!
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I love maraschino cherries so I'm pretty ecstatic to see them in cookies! Pinning!
Very fun cookies ~ love the bright red cherries!
Hey – what a fantastic blog you have! And so many delicious recipies! I am really impressed. You must have been blogging since you were born…
Love these cherry cookies! Perfect for Holiday cookie boxes!
I looove the chocolate and cherry combination – these look amazing!
I haven't seen a maraschino cherry in decades.
Remember the green ones?
Have a great weekend!
The cherries makes it look like you bled all over them. That's what I'll tell people, then I get to eat all of them.
Now that is a gorgeous cookie 🙂 Mmmm!
The perfect recipe for christmas, thanks a lot for sharing!
Cherry and chocolate goes perfectly well in this cookies.
I'll comment with an actual recipe review..
These are pretty good, I chilled the dough before baking. I think they would spread way too much otherwise. I think the recipe could use some tweaking but I was unable to find any similar recipes to compare this one with.
These look amazing, I am baking them a week before Christmas can you please tell me the best way to store them.
Anonymous: They will keep for a week or two in a sealed container at room temperature and if you want them to last longer, keep them in the fridge.
Thank you Kevin!
I had to add more flour to the dough because my first batch came out too runny. After you add a little flour chill the dough for 30-45 mins. and they come out perfect!
I baked maraschino cherries into cookies right about this time last year! Except I used white choc not dark. Your cookies are so festive! pinned
Just made these, family loved them, first time I've baked cookies. I'm a huge fan of maraschino cherries as it is. So yummy 🙂
I made these cookies and they didn't come out good they were very thin and like mush…. I don't know what happened
Sounds awesomely delicious.
Barb
I made these cookies yesterday…Delicious!
I made these last Saturday, and even though I drained the cherries well and blotted them with a paper towel, the dough was very wet and the cookies turned out extremely soft – even with a couple of extra minutes in the oven. Almost more like candy than cookies (my husband ate them, anyway, though). Undaunted, I tried the recipe again the next day using dried cherries that I'd snipped to make the pieces a little smaller. The only other change I made was to add 1/2 cup of chopped pecans. Success! I'm about to make another batch.
so delicious … I also added walnuts… not to over power it.. but just enough !!! you know what I mean….yummy
My first batch baked very thin. I will try the suggestions for adding more flour and chilling the dough before hand.
Added pistachios, chopped, and pistachio extract, mmmm spumoni!!
Yum!