OAMC: Vintage Recipe Cherry Chip Slice and Bake Cookies
February 14, 2008 by Marye Audet
Filed under Cookies
While I was checking through old recipes yesterday I found this and it sounded so absolutely awesome that I am posting it. I think I am going to add some pecans to it, though.
Cherry Refrigerator Roll Cookies
1-cup shortening
1-cup sugar
1-8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
½-teaspoon salt
2-1/2-cups flour
½-cup chopped maraschino cherries
Orange marmalade
Maraschino cherry halves
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Cream the shortening and cream cheese together. Gradually add sugar and beat well. Add flour and salt. And mix well. Add chopped cherries and mix. Shape sough into rolls 2” in diameter and wrap and chill. Cut 1/8” thick slices, as needed, and place on greased cookie sheet. Top with 1/8-teaspoon marmalade and 1 cherry half. Bake 5 to 8 minutes This dough will keep 1 week in the fridge or can be frozen.
Sounds interesting. Do they make dried cherries? I wonder how they would substitute for maraschino. Maraschino cherries scare me.