Chocolate Cherry Bon Bons

• Produce

  • 1 1/2 tbsp Amaretto or cherry, juice
  • 1/4 tsp Chipotle

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg

• Baking & Spices

  • 1/4 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp Baking soda
  • 1 cup Bittersweet chocolate chips
  • 3/4 cup Cocoa, dark
  • 1 1/2 cups Flour
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla

• Snacks

  • 1 Cookies

• Dairy

  • 1/2 cup Butter, unsalted
  • 1/2 cup Condensed milk, sweetened

• Desserts

  • 36 Maraschino cherries without, stems

• Other

  • ganache

Found on restlesschipotle.com

Description

Ingredients

• Cookies
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup extra dark cocoa
• 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon chipotle powder (may omit )
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 36 Maraschino cherries without stems, drained, and patted dry (reserve juice)
• Ganache
• 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Amaretto or cherry juice

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 350F
• In a bowl, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in the egg and vanilla.
• Combine the flour, cocoa, chipotle, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
• Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix well.
• Form the dough into 36 balls using about a heaping teaspoon of dough for each.
• Roll the dough in confectioners sugar.
• Push a cherry into each one.
• Cover with the ganache.
• Bake for 9 to 10 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• Ganache
• Pour the sweetened condensed milk into a small saucepan.
• Stir in the chocolate chips.
• Heat until the chocolate is melted.
• Blend well.
• Add the Amaretto or cherry juice.
• Spoon on top of each cherry, covering it completely, before baking.

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