Festive, easy recipe is a hit

 

Priscilla Weaver of Hagerstown bakes about 19 kinds of cookies each year for the holidays. She makes the hardest ones first. Cherry Chocolate Chip cookies is a fairly new recipe for Weaver.

"Chocolate chip cookies seem to be America's favorite cookie. They don't get any easier than this recipe. For a festive holiday appearance, I use both red and green maraschino cherries," she wrote.

Weaver, a field editor for Taste of Home, a national magazine that specializes in foods, says she's always sharing her favorite cooking recipes.

"This is my part-time job. I like to bake and give them away," she says.

 

Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies

• yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
• 1 egg
• 6-ounce package semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries, drained

Combine cake mix, butter and egg in large bowl. Stir in chocolate chips, pecans and cherries. Drop by rounded teaspoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool one minute on baking sheet. Remove to cooling rack.

Makes 3 1/2 to 4 dozen.