Chocolate Cherry Thumbprints

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Author Notes: My father loved chocolate covered cherries - the gooey, sticky, sugary kind that showed up on drug store shelves, each year, around the holidays. And each year, just around Thanksgiving, I would start to save my nickels and dimes so that I could present him with a box on Christmas, just from me. I made these in sweet memory of him. - Jennifer Ann

Serves 2 dozen

  • 1 cup flour, plus 1 Tablespoon, divided
  • 1 cup almonds
  • 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 4 ounces good quality dark chocolate, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
  • 1/2 cup Morello cherry conserve (or other cherry preserves)
  1. preheat oven to 350
  2. spread almonds on baking sheet and toast for about 8 minutes (until fragrant, and just beginning to brown); cool to room temperature, then add to food processor with 1 tablespoon flour, until finely ground.
  3. cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
  4. whisk together flour and ground almonds; and stir into creamed butter mixture until well combined; cover and chill for at least an hour.
  5. roll about 1 teaspoon of dough into a ball, and place on parchment lined baking sheet; press finger into top center of ball to create a well; repeat with remaining dough, and bake for about 15 minutes, or until just beginning to lightly brown; remove from pans to racks to cool
  6. melt chocolate in a double boiler; stir in cream; and remove from heat
  7. dip bottom of cookies into melted chocolate and transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet
  8. when chocolate has set, carefully spoon the cherry conserve into the thumbprint well

Tags: Holidays

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over 3 years ago Jennifer Ann

Thanks Shayma! It was the first time I had tried morello cherries, and I was so pleased with the nice velvetty cherry flavor - not at all tart, or cloyingly sweet

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over 3 years ago shayma

what a lovely combination. morello cherries, delish. in memory of your father, this is a lovely and loving gesture. x

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