Healthy Chocolate Cherry Chews Recipe
Healthy Chocolate Cherry Chews Recipe
Author: Cynthia Lee
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 12
- Calories: 208
- Fat: 10 g
- Carbohydrates: 3 g
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 20.5 mg
- Fiber: 7 g
- Protein: 8 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Chocolate cherry chews are one of the tastiest snacks. It is a perfect blend of cherries, cranberry juice, condensed milk, cocoa, apple butter, cherry, vanilla extract and coconut. You can easily make it in your home within an hour. You can serve it after family dinners or at parties.
Ingredients
- Dried cherries, chopped: 1 cup
- Cranberry juice: ¼ cup
- Cherry or apple butter: ½ cup
- Unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably Dutch-process: ¾ cup
- Non-fat sweetened condensed milk: ½ cup
- vanilla extract: 1 tablespoon
- Sweetened flaked coconut, divided: 2 cups
Instructions
- First of all, you have to preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Then, take two baking sheets and spray them with some cooking oil.
- Take a small saucepan. Add cherries and cranberry juice in that saucepan and mix them well. Place the saucepan on a low heat flame on the stove. Keep stirring the mixture for around two minutes or until the juice is fully absorbed. Remove the pan from the stove and place it aside to cool down.
- After that, take a large bowl and put cocoa powder, condensed milk, cherry or apple butter and vanilla extract in it. Mix all the ingredients well with each other with the help of an electric beater. Beat it until it becomes smooth. Then, you have to add the flabby cherries along with the coconut which stirring gradually.
- Now, you have to make around one inch mounds of the mixture on the baking sheet with the help of a spoon. Then, shower the remaining coconut on the mounds.
- Place the baking sheets in the oven and bake the cookies for around 8 to 10 minutes. Bake the cookies until they become brown. After that, take them out transfer them to the wire rack to cool down.
- Your chocolate cherry chews are ready to be served.
