Yuletide Cherry Cookies Recipe

Yuletide Cherry Cookies Recipe
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100% would make again

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!

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  • 30 Servings
  • Prep: 20 min. + chilling Bake: 15 min.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup crushed crisp rice cereal
  • 15 red and/or green maraschino cherries, halved and patted dry

Directions

  • In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar. Beat in almond extract. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
  • Shape dough into 1-in. balls; roll in crushed cereal. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately press a cherry half into the center of each cookie. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.

Nutrition 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.

Yuletide Cherry Cookies published in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2004, p42

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Yuletide Cherry Cookies Recipe

Yuletide Cherry Cookies

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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

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

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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