Chocolate Chip Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
And when the mood strikes me (which is more often than needed), I can take out just one or two and bake them in my toaster oven for a single treat. For the money and time spent, I don't think you'll find a "roll" of bake-off cookie dough any easier.
If I'm going to have a cookie it would have to have chocolate too, and if I really went crazy I'd add pecans and dried fruit...nah, not just dried fruit - big dark cherries. In fact, I'd leave out the nuts so they wouldn't upstage the cherries and chips.
RECIPE: The Best Chocolate Chip Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup flour
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 stick (8 Tbls. butter)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
1/4 cup dark dried cherries, chopped
1) In a large bowl, combine the flour, oatmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir together, then add the chocolate chips and cherries and toss to combine.
2) In another bowl, beat the butter, sugars and vanilla together. Then add the egg and beat again until creamy.
3) Add the creamy ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir well with a wooden spoon.
4) Scoop out cookie dough in about Tbls. size balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
**You can freeze the dough at this point (bag, label and return to the freezer for cooking later), or Bake for 10-12 minutes at 350F. The secret is- DON'T OVER-BAKE. Take them out even if they don't look done and give them a chance to cool= chewy, chocolate and soft.
Remove, allow to cool and try to discipline yourself to not eat the whole pan in one sitting.
4 comments:
These sounds scrumptious. Ever since about a month ago I wanted cherries and I found out it was like a WEEK before cherry season I've become obsessed with them. I will add chocolate chip cookies with cherries to my list of how to get my cherry fix.
These sound wonderful! I'm intrigued by the cherries... must make soon!
New to your blog; happy I found you!
Mary xo
Delightful Bitefuls
These are AMAZING!!!!!!! hands down the yummiest cookie ever.
These look scrumptious! I agree; leave out the nuts and just keep it all chocolate and cherries. YUM! Love how thick they look.
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