Chocolate Covered Cherry Thumbprint Cookies takes an old fashioned candy and combines with a simple cookie recipe! This makes for a fun delicious holiday treat!

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I swear these cookies are not a hot mess! Really, they may look like it but they are in fact so delicious!!!

I don’t know about you but I love chocolate covered cherries! My girls think they taste like cough medicine but I think they are just not fully able to capture the deliciousness of this candy!

What I didn’t know was that you can find the candy either in milk chocolate or dark chocolate and so now I can’t decided which one is my favorite?!!

How to make these cookies:

So making these cookies are pretty simple. I cut my chocolate peppermint thumbprint cookie recipe in half to make a smaller batch but you could definitely double it!

• I added greek yogurt to the cookie recipe but you could use regular yogurt or sour cream.
• It was by accident that I broke the centers of these and I am so glad I did! They looked a little boring before I did it.
• Allow the cookies to sit on your parchment paper until the filling stops to flow. They can be a little messy.
• Make sure to space your cookies out far enough apart so the filling doesn’t run into the other cookies
• You can flash freeze the cookies to stop the centers from flowing.
• You can use this recipe to make these raspberry chocolate thumbprint cookies!

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Chocolate Covered Cherry Thumbprint Cookies

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

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Ingredients

• 1/2 stick butter , room temperature
• 1/4 cup greek yogurt
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 2/3 cups white whole wheat flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 20 chocolate covered cherries

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 ℉. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside
2. In large bowl add butter, sugar, yogurt and cookie butter. Mix until completely incorporated.
3. Add in egg and extra and continue to mix until incorporated.
4. Slowly mix in flour and baking powder until dough comes together
5. Using a 1 inch cookie scoop, scoop mixture out in balls and place on baking sheet. Roll each ball until smooth. Place a small thumbprint into the center of each ball.
6. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown
7. When done remove and wait 2 minutes. Press chocolate covered cherry into the center of each cookie.
8. Allow to cool for 5 minutes. Break the center of each chocolate covered cherry.
9. Serve and ENJOY!

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