Danish Cherry Bon Bon Cookies (With Frosting Recipe)
"Great holiday treats to take to work or share with friends and neighbors. Now a tradition in this family."
photo by loof751
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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36 cookies
ingredients
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Cookie Dough
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄4 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour (sifted)
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 36 maraschino cherries (well drained, reserve juice)
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Frosting
- 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon evaporated milk
- 1 tablespoon maraschino cherry juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Mix butter and sugar together to a creamy consistency, then add vanilla.
- Add flour and salt gradually, mix with a fork.
- Make a small ball with dough and fold a Maraschino cherry in the middle, completely covering cherry in dough.
- Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes.
- Cool cookies.
- Make frosting, thoroughly mix together frosting ingredients.
- Dip top of cookies into frosting and allow to dry.
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Reviews
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Wonderful Cookie.. I made these cookies as a new addition to our cookies tray for Christmas! Very pretty also -
These are really good. For Christmas you could put a few drops of red coloring in the frosting or use green cherries with green frosting. I will definately make these again. -
Delicious cookie. It is like a cherry wrapped in a sugar cookie. -
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What a lovely cookie recipe! A little time-consuming to make but well worth it in taste and presentation. I liked that the dough is not really sweet; it's a good balance with the sweet cherry and icing. I did add some cocoa powder to my icing mix. Thanks for sharing your recipe! Made for the Sweet December holiday event, 2013 -
This recipe is a perfect choice for a "Christmas in July" party. I have made Bon Bons at Christmas time for many years and they're always a hit. <br/><br/>I substituted margarine for butter and didn't bother sifting any of the icing sugar. I also made just 14 Bon Bons with this recipe as that is how many cherries I had. I can't imagine how tiny they would have been if I'd made 36 like the recipe says it makes.
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This recipe is a perfect choice for a "Christmas in July" party. I have made Bon Bons at Christmas time for many years and they're always a hit. <br/><br/>I substituted margarine for butter and didn't bother sifting any of the icing sugar. I also made just 14 Bon Bons with this recipe as that is how many cherries I had. I can't imagine how tiny they would have been if I'd made 36 like the recipe says it makes.
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Dawn399
United States
I?m ?originally from Texas, but now live in Florida. Still gotta have that spice though....love chipotle peppers, habaneros, and jalapenos. This is a picture of myself & my 2 daughters taken in Dec'06. I am working on my graduate degree, & still work as a nurse prn. When I'm not cooking and eating what I cook... I head for the gym to work out. As far as cookbooks, I love the church/ community cookbooks, where someone has dug out old handwritten recipes by granny and shared them with others-those are the best kind. If I had a month off, I'd for sure go hiking, would love to visit Australia and New Zealand.?
