Cherry Bell Cookies

From the kitchen of Miranda Heath

• ½ cup butter
• ¼ cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp water
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1¼ cups all purpose flour
• 2 doz Maraschino cherries with stems (well drained)

1. Cream butter, blend in sugar, add water, then stir in salt and flour.
2. Take a teaspoon of cookie dough per cherry and shape around the dough around the cherry leaving the stem showing.
3. Roll the cherry bell in colored sugar and place on an ungreased baking sheet. (Air bake cookie sheet best.)
4. Bake at 325° for 15 to 20 minutes.