High Altitude Chocolate Cherry Cookies
These chocolate cherry cookies have a soft and fudgy chocolate brownie cookie base, topped with vanilla buttercream, homemade cherry pie filling, and chopped chocolate.
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Equipment
- Stand Mixer with Paddle Attachment
- Medium Cookie Scoop with Release Lever (2 1/2 tbsp capacity)
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 recipe chocolate brownie cookies
Pie Filling
- 1 lb fresh or frozen pitted tart cherries or sweet dark cherries
- 6 tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp corn starch
- ⅛ tsp coarse Kosher salt (if using table salt, use half the amount)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Buttercream
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp meringue powder (optional)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Other
- 1 oz dark chocolate, chopped
Instructions
Cookies
- Make 1 recipe chocolate brownie cookies. You should get 18-20 cookies.
- Cool the cookies completely before assembling. You can make these in advance, and keep them frozen in an airtight container until you're ready to assemble.
Pie Filling
- In a saucepan, combine the pitted cherries, sugar, corn starch, salt, lemon juice, and vanilla.
- Over medium heat, bring the cherries to a boil, stirring frequently. Once the cherries start to gel and thicken, stir constantly to keep it from sticking; cook for one minute to activate the corn starch.
- Remove from the heat, and cool completely before assembling the cookies. You can make the filling several days in advance, keeping it refrigerated in an airtight container until needed.
Buttercream
- In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter for one minute until smooth.
- With the mixer on low, add the powdered sugar by spoonfuls, the meringue powder, and the vanilla.
- Increase the speed to medium, and beat for 4-5 minutes, stopping to scrape the bowl down several times, until very light and fluffy.
- For the pale pink color, I added a little of the cherry "gel" from the pie filling (not the whole cherries).
Assembly
- Assemble the cookies no more than several hours before you're ready to serve them.
- Fit a 16-inch disposable piping bag with a large open star tip, such as 1M or 6B (I used 6B). Fill half full with the buttercream.
- Pipe a "ring" of buttercream onto each of the cooled cookies, leaving the center open.
- Spoon the cooled cherry pie filling generously into the center of the cookies.
- Finish decorating with a sprinkling of dark chocolate.
Notes
- Each element of this dessert can be prepared in advance, then stored separately.
- Assemble the cookies no more than a few hours before you're ready to serve them.
- Instead of the vanilla buttercream, these would also be fantastic with chocolate buttercream.
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