Categories: baking, cookies

Ingredients

• 8 ounces (2 sticks) butter, room temperature
• 1 1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons (10 oz) granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (2 oz) Hershey’s dark cocoa powder
• 2 1/4 cups (10 oz) bleached all purpose flour (bleached makes for fatter cookies)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup bittersweet or chocolate chips
• Filling:
• 1/4 cup regular cold sour cream (not light)
• 1 teaspoon egg yolk **
• 2 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon flour
• 1/3 cup dried sour cherries, chopped (more or less)

Directions

1. Cream butter and sugar until well-blended; Add eggs and vanilla and beat just until incorporated. Scrape sides of bowl and beat in cocoa powder, then scrape sides of bowl again making sure everything is well mixed.

2. In a separate bowl, thoroughly stir together flour, salt and baking powder. Stir the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture. Stir in the chocolate chips. Chill dough for 1 hour or more.

3. Prepare filling. Mix together sour cream, egg yolk, sugar and flour. Stir in the cherries.

4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

5. Divide dough in half. Keep half the dough chilled and shape remaining dough into 8 equally sized balls. Working one dough ball at a time, mold a large hole in the dough and fill it with about a teaspoon of the sour cream mixture. Do this with 8 balls of dough and arrange them a few inches apart on the cookie sheet.

6. Bake at 375 for 8 minutes. Without opening oven, reduce heat to 325 and bake for another 8 minutes or until cookies appear set. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.

7. While one batch cookies, make remaining 8 cookies.

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