Chewy Chocolate Cookies
      recipe is my own variation of Reese's Chewy Chocolate Cookies, from Hershey's Chocolate Classics cookbook, Favorite Recipes Magazine 12/6/88 pg. 51


      Ingredients
      1 1/4c butter or margarine, softened
      2c sugar
      2 eggs
      2t vanilla
      2c unsifted all-purpose flour
      3/4 c. baking cocoa
      1t baking soda
      1/2t salt
      1c chopped nuts
      1c. chopped candied maraschino cherries

      Cream butter and sugar in large mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually blend into creamed mixture. Stir in nuts and cherry pieces.

      Drop onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees until covered with dimples. Do not overbake. (Cookies will be soft; they will puff during baking and flatten upon cooling.)
      Cool until set, about 1 minute, remove from cookie sheet; cool completely on wire rack