I first encountered this cookie during a holiday open house at a home decor store over ten years ago. Along with the holiday decorations were trays and trays of wonderful cookies. I asked the owner for the recipes as I had personally sampled nearly every single cookie on the trays and was so very impressed. He said they were his mother's cookies and would have to check with her. A few minutes later, he returned with his mother in tow and a grateful offer of her recipes in hand. I thanked her profusely. I must have passed the cookie-sharing-worthy test. This cookie originally was a non-vegan Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookie. Now that I am vegan, I have had to modify several "old stand-by" cookie recipes. Some have worked, some have not. I did not have maraschino cherries on hand so I modified this recipe quite a bit, converting it not only into a different cookie, but also making it vegan. The cookie portion is as moist and chewy and tasty as I originally rembered it--the added peanut butter and ganache takes it over the top.

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