Best Cherry Drop Cookies Recipes

CHERRY DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat the butter, egg yolks and brown sugar until creamy. Add vanilla and beat again. Remove beater and get a spoon to mix the rest of the way. Alternate adding flour, nuts and candied cherries.
• Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350F for 12-13 minutes. These cookies will brown very fast due to the butter content. You should remove them when the bottoms are just starting to turn brown.

GRANDMA PARSON'S CHEERY CHERRY DATE NUT DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Sift together flour, soda, salt. Set aside.
• 2. Cream butter, brown sugar, eggs. Mix til light and fluffy
• 3. Add creamed mixture alternately with flour mixture, then add buttermilk.
• 4. Stir in nuts, cherries, dates.
• 5. Drop by teaspoons on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
• 6. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes, or unti lightly browned.

CHOCOLATE-CHERRY DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F. Line 3 baking sheets with parchment.
• Whisk the flour, cocoa and salt together in a medium bowl. Put the butter, unsweetened and semisweet chocolates in a large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 30 second increments, stirring until melted, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Stir the granulated and light brown sugars into the chocolate mixture until blended and then add the milk, vanilla and eggs and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon or spatula until thick and glossy. Add the flour mixture and stir until just combined. Stir in chocolate chunks and dried cherries.
• Drop the batter in heaping tablespoons onto the prepared baking sheets, about 2-inches apart. Bake until the cookies are set on the edges but still soft in the middle, 12 to 15 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through the baking time. Cool on the baking sheets on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then transfer to the wire rack to cool completely.

PEANUT BUTTER AND CHERRY DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. In a medium bowl, using a mixer, beat butter and sugars until pale and fluffy, 4 minutes. Add vanilla, eggs, and peanut butter and beat until combined. Add flour mixture and beat until just combined. Mix in cherries.
• Drop dough in 2-tablespoon-size balls on parchment-lined baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies are golden around the edges but still soft in the center, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool on sheets 1 to 2 minutes, then transfer to wire racks and let cool completely.

CHOCOLATE CHERRY DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, stir together hot cocoa mix and water.
• Add the flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• In a separate bowl, add butter, sugar and egg.
• Combine thoroughly, and add this mixture to the dry ingredients.
• Beat on high until thoroughly combined.
• Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto a lightly greased cookie sheet about 2-inch apart.
• Press a cherry into each cookie.
• Bake in oven for 12-14 minutes.
• Cookies may seem soft when taken out, but they will firm up as they cool.

CABERNET AND CHERRY CHOCOLATE DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• marinate about 30 minutes. Drain cherries (and drink the wine...). In In a small bowl place the cherries and wine. Microwave 45 seconds and then let sit and another bowl melt the baking bar in a small bowl by microwaving it about 45 seconds and stirring. If chocolate is still lumpy, then microwave again for about 10-15 seconds, then stir. If still lumpy, repeat until smooth. Let chocolate sit to cool to room temperature. In a large bowl cream together the chocolate, oil and sugar. One at a time, beat in the eggs and then add in the vanilla extract. In another bowl mix together the baking powder, flour and the salt. Add the creamed chocolate mixture to the dry ingredients and mix all together. Fold in the drained "cabernet cherries," the chocolate chips and the pecan pieces. Roll the dough into 1" balls and then roll these lightly into powdered sugar to coat all sides. (If dough is too sticky to roll easily, refrigerate it about 30 minutes to an hour.) Place on cookie sheet, spacing cookies 2 inches apart. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.

CHERRY DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• cream butter and sugar
• add chocolate
• add egg
• add vanilla
• add dry ingredients
• add chopped cherries
• drop by teaspoon
• bake 350 10 minutes or until browned.

FROSTED CHERRY DROP COOKIES RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, combine cake mix, sour cream, 3 tablespoons cherry juice, almond and egg; stir until well blended. Fold in chopped cherries. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes or until edges are light brown. Let cool completely before you add frosting. In small bowl, combine all frosting ingredients, except maraschino cherries, adding enough milk for spreading consistency. Frost cooled cookies. Top with cherry piece