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Cherry Winks Recipe


Cherry Winks Recipe
This is a cookie my Mom always made at Christmas. It looks festive and tastes heavenly. It comes from the second pillsbury bake off with a few tiny alterations.

Riverrat715

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Ingredients
  • 3/4 cp soft butter
  • 1 cp sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbs orange juice concentrate
  • 1tsp vanilla
  • 2 cps flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cp chopped pecans
  • 1/3 cp chopped maraschino cherries
  • 3 cps crushed cornflakes
  • 30 maraschino cherries halved

Directions
  1. 1Preheat oven to 375 degrees
  2. In large bowl combine butter and sugar
  3. beat until fluffy
  4. add eggs, orange juice and vanilla:
  5. beat well to combine
  6. add dry ingredients and mix well
  7. stir in peacans and 1/3 cp cherries
  8. cover dough and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours
  9. Shape dough into balls using a level tbs of dough
  10. roll each ball in crushed cornflakes and plsce on parchment lined cookie sheets
  11. top each cookie with 1/2 cherry
  12. Bake at 375 fo 9-12 minutes untill light golden brown
  13. let cool on cookie sheet for 4-5 minutes
  14. remove to wire racks to cool completly
  15. makes about 60 cookies
  16. These are so good you will probably want to make more. They go fast.

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Comments


I can already see them gracefully winking at me from their platter... thanks, river. five.
Lorraine


You have my 5, they sound great.


Sounds great. Love marschino cherries. Thanks


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