Cherry Bombs

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 (16 ounce) jars maraschino cherries, with stems
• powdered sugar, for dipping

Recipe

• 1 drain cherries, leave in strainer over a bowl.
• 2 put the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl. cut in softened butter with 2 forks. stir thoroughly with for, continuing to cut until the mixture looks like coarse meal.
• 3 beat the eggs in a medium-sized bowl and combine with sugar.
• 4 add eggs and sugar mixture to the rest of the ingredients and stir until thoroughly mixed.
• 5 extract small bits of dought with your fingers and wrap them around each maraschino cherry, leaving the stem sticking out.
• 6 press the bottoms of the dough-wrapped cherries on a greased baking sheet.
• 7 bake at 350 for 10 minutes. (cookies will be .).
• 8 let the cookies cool on the cookie sheet. then dip them in powdered sugar so only the cookie part it covered, not the stem.