Chocolate cherry delight

Chocolate-covered Cherry Delights 

Ingredients:
 * 1 cup butter
 * 2 cups sugar
 * 2 eggs
 * 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
 * 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
 * 1/2 teaspoon salt
 * 2 teaspoons vanilla
 * 1 cup cocoa powder
 * 3 cups flour not sifted
 * 2 10 ounce maraschino cherries
 * 6 ounces chocolate chips
 * 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk

Directions: Melt butter. Add sugar. Cool. Add eggs; mix. Add baking powder, baking soda, salt, vanilla and cocoa, stirring after each addition. Add flour; mix well. Dough will be stiff and crumbly. Drain cherries and remove stems, reserve juice. Pat dough into walnut sized balls. Place on greased cookie sheet, 12 to a sheet. Press center with thumb. Place one cherry in indentation. In double boiler, combine chips, condensed milk. Melt. Add 1/8 cup cherry juice. Spoon over cherries on cookie to cover cherry, don’t drip down sides. Bake at 350 degrees 10-12 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet two minutes, then on wire rack.