Dark Chocolate Cherry Pudding Cookies #HandCraftedEdibles

 

In an effort to make all of my holiday gifts this year, we are sharing recipes for hand-crafted edibles. Over the course of twelve weeks, we'll be sharing recipes that you can make at home to give to friends and loved ones, or things to serve at holiday parties. It's hard to believe we're at week 11. We hope you'll follow along for inspiration. You can find out more information, including the schedule: here.

This week, we are bringing you inspiration for your holiday cookie trays. Have you started with you holiday baking yet?

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Cookies are my go-to treat for the holidays. I have already made an insane amount of cookies this year and I'm still trying to post ones I made last year. So here are a few recent cookie recipes I've posted: Turtle Thumbprint Cookies, Butterscotch Butter Rum Pudding Cookies, and Dark Chocolate Mint Cake Mix Cookies. In addition to those, you can find my 50+ other cookie recipes in one easy spot in my recipe index {here}.

This recipe is one I came up with last year when I did a Nestle Tollhouse campaign. They had their new filled morsels on the shelves and I excitedly came up with two cookie recipes for them. I am a huge fan of pudding cookies, so I knew that I wanted to make one recipe for pudding cookies out of the filled morsels. When I made these ones, I had my mom-in-law in mind. Each year, we get her some Queen Anne cherry cordials because they are one of her favorite candies. I knew she would love a chocolate & cherry cookie

I used one bag of the Dark Chocolate & Cherry Filled DelightFulls and then some dark chocolate chips. These cookies were so good. They were perfectly balanced. The cherry wasn't too overwhelming. I myself don't really like chocolate and cherry together, and even I loved them.

If you have yet to try the filled morsels - I highly recommend them. They are bigger than the average chocolate chip and they have cherry, peanut butter, mint, and caramel versions.

There is one more week of #HandCraftedEdibles to go, but I just wanted to give a special shout-out to Camilla for organizing the whole thing and inviting me to join in. It was a lot of fun sharing goodies that are perfect for holiday giving!

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What you need:

• 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 3.4 oz chocolate fudge instant pudding mix
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 cups candies - 1 bag Nestle Tollhouse DelightFulls Dark Chocolate and Cherry morsels, the rest dark chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Add eggs and vanilla, mix until just combined.
3. Add pudding mix and mix until just combined.
4. Then add flour and baking soda. Mix until just combined.
5. Add candies and stir.
6. Scoop onto a parchment paper or silicone mat lined cookie sheet using a cookie scooper.
7. Bake in a preheated 350* oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Let rest for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.

Original Fantastical Recipe

Thanks to these gals and their creative cookie ideas...

• Amy's Cooking Adventures shared 40+ Cookie Cookie Recipes
• Fantastical Sharing of Recipes created Dark Chocolate Cherry Pudding Cookies
• Cookaholic Wife baked Iced Gingerbread Biscotti
• Making Miracles made Candy Cane Cookies
• Sew You Think You Can Cook posted about Honeyed Gingerbread Cookies
• A Day in the Life on the Farm whipped up some Fairy Drops
• Culinary Adventures with Camilla rolled Spicy Peanut Butter Cookies

Next week - week 12 and our final week - is all about wrapping. How to label those jarred mixes. How to mail cookies safely. How to....

Don't forget to check out our #handcraftededibles pinterest board.

This recipe was recreated by Our Eating Habits for October 2016 SRC {here}

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