Blue Ribbon Recipes

490 Award Winning Recipes is the very best of recipes from state fairs around the country.

From cakes and cookies and breads to jellys and main dishes this one cookbook has it all and you can\'t go wrong with a recipe that has been a winner in a state fair competition.

Inside you will find recipes from the past as well as some of the newest creations that will surely please your family and friends.

Take a look at just some of the recipes you will find in this jam-packed eBook:

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

  1 1/2 C Flour
    1/2 C Unsweetened cocoa powder
    1/4 T Salt
    1/4 T Baking powder
    1/4 T Baking soda
    1/2 C Butter (or margarine,)
           Softened
      1 C Sugar
      1    Egg
  1 1/2 t  Vanilla
     48    Maraschino cherries
           Frosting
      6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
    1/2 C Sweetened condensed milk
           Cherry juice (4 to 5 tsp)

1.

In bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking
soda. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and
vanilla to butter-sugar mixture and beat well. Gradually add dry
ingredients to butter-sugar mixture and beat until well blended.

2. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and
push down center of each ball with thumb. Drain cherries and reserve
juice. Place 1 cherry in center of each indentation. Heat oven to 350
degrees.

3. For frosting, put chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk in
small saucepan. Heat until chocolate melts. Stir in 4 teaspoons cherry
juice.  If too thick, add more juice.

4. Spoon 1 teaspoon frosting over each cherry. Spread to cover cherry.
Bake 10 minutes or until done. Do not overcook. Remove to wire rack and
cool.  The cookies freeze nicely.

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