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Crispy on the outside, these eye-catching cherry-topped cookies are chewy and tender on the inside. They're a great hit whenever I take them to holiday parties or cookie exchanges!
Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 72 calories, 4 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 11 mg cholesterol, 69 mg sodium, 9 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.
Originally published as Yuletide Cherry Cookies in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2004, p42
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Reviewed on Dec. 26, 2012 by trishina
This cookie has been a tradition in our house. Of course, kids are grown up now, but still make them with some substitutions I use bran flakes for rice cereal I add dates, chopped cherries, and raisins to the batter. So good!
Reviewed on Dec. 14, 2012 by lois1555
AWESOME!!!!!! I would not change a thing I have been making these cookies for Christmas for the last 4 years and I always end up making at least 3 recipes my family and I love love love them
Reviewed on Sep. 30, 2011 by katzpawz
Great cookies MINUS the rice cereal. I used colored sugars instead. Red with a green cherry and green with a red cherry. Festive and yummy!
Reviewed on Jun. 02, 2011 by myrojisa
I made these cookies for our church's High Tea. I replaced the maraschino cherries with the canned cherry pie filling. Make sure the rice cereal is crushed really fine and barely roll the balls in it. There were delightful!!
Reviewed on Jan. 08, 2011 by Ron07
Oh ! so good,i would roll them in pinioli nuts .
Reviewed on Jun. 11, 2009 by katzzz
I love these cookies and make them every year at Christmas. I go exactly by the recipe given and would not change a thing. Simply Delicious.Kathy
I love these cookies and make them every year at Christmas. I go exactly by the recipe given and would not change a thing. Simply Delicious.
Kathy
Reviewed on Jan. 12, 2009 by corky collis
Good cookie base,I also skipped the rice crispies...and my Grand children prefer halved gum drops instead of cherries!sccollis
Good cookie base,I also skipped the rice crispies...and my Grand children prefer halved gum drops instead of cherries!
sccollis
Reviewed on Dec. 15, 2008 by sbuffman
Good flavored cookie, but would skip the rice cereal next time and maybe use ground nuts of some sort or nothing at all as the cereal tasted stale the next day.
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