chocolate cherry oatmeal cookies
I bought the Liberty of London cookie jar from target for my mom’s birthday. I also picked up a kid’s sundress while I was there solely for the fabric, but now a little bird tells me they will be selling cotton curtain panels (aka straight up yardage) sometime soon!
Now you can’t just give someone a cookie jar and not put cookies in it, so I made some chocolate cherry oatmeal cookies and damn if they weren’t pretty good. Dried cherries are dear, but they are so, so good. Raisins would work, but then they would just be oatmeal raisin cookies and that’s no fun.
Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 tea salt
- 1 1/2 cups oats
- 1 cup dried cherries
- 3.5 ounces good dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream the butter and both sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the egg and mix on high speed to combine. Then add the vanilla.
- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture to the mixer (make sure it’s on low) and mix just until combined. Add the oats, cherries, and chocolate and mix by hand.
- Spoon heaping tablespoons full of dough, a couple inches apart, onto a lined baking sheet.
- Bake cookies until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Cool and give away or keep them all for yourself.
