Recipe - Chocolate-Cherry Drops

One half cup Margarine; softened
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 Squares; (2 ounces)
unsweetened chocolate,
melted and cooled
1/3 cup Buttermilk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 Three fourths cup Flour
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
2 cup Cutup maraschino cherries
Chocolate Icing or Cherry
Butter Icing; (below)

Mix thoroughly margarine, sugar, egg, chocolate, buttermilk and vanilla.
Stir in flour, soda, salt and cherries. Cover; chill 1 hour. Heat oven to
400 degrees F. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto
ungreased baking sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Immediately remove from
baking sheet; cool. Frost. Makes 4 1/42 dozen cookies.

Chocolate Icing: Melt 2 squares (2 ounces) unsweetened chocolate and 2
tablespoons margarine over low heat. Remove from heat; blend in 3
tablespoons water and about 2 cups confectioner's sugar.

Cherry Butter Icing: Blend 1/3 cup margarine, softened, and 3 cups
confectioners' sugar. Stir in 1 One half teaspoons vanilla, about 2 tablespoons
milk, 2 tablespoons chopped maraschino cherries and 2 drops red food color.

NOTE: This makes a very nice presentation when half of the cookies have the
chocolate icing and the other half the cherry butter.

Posted to EATL Digest by Al & Diane Johnson johnson@NEGIA.NET on Dec
10, 1997