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OK, there is no way to make these brown cookies look as amazing as they taste…just trust me; they are chewy and delicious with incredible flavor! I’m a huge fan of oatmeal cookies…and adding dried tart cherries and white chocolate chunks has got to be my best version ever. Since the hubby and daughter poo-poo oatmeal in their desserts, I went ahead and added my favorites to the batter…plus just a touch of almond extract to bring out the cherry flavor. These are my contribution to the new monthly Dessert Challenge…hosted by Sheryl of Lady Behind the Curtain. Sheryl was the original creator of The Improv Challenge before her blog took a little hiatus. Not like I really needed another group to join, but this one was hard to resist! This month’s theme is Cherries and Chocolate…the ideal combination for Valentine’s Day. Well, maybe not if the only cherries your hubby will touch are in Kool Aid…and maybe cough drops if he’s desperate! Oh, well, I guess this is a Valentine’s Day present for myself!
If you love to make desserts, consider joining this Dessert Challenge. You are not required to post every month…and it’s an excellent way to meet new foodies and discover a slew of amazing desserts.
Tip of the Day: To make your own dark brown sugar, just mix 1 tablespoon molasses into a cup of light brown sugar.
Extra tip of the Day: Cookies made with all butter tend to spread. I used a butter/shortening combination in this recipe to minimize the spreading, but feel free to use all butter if you have objections to baking with shortening.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, room temperature
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 cup dark-brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats (not Quick oats)
- 2 cups dried tart cherries
- 4 ounces white chocolate, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- With a hand mixer, beat the butter, shortening and sugars until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla, and beat to incorporate. Add flour mixture to butter mixture, mixing on low speed to combine. Stir in the oats, dried cherries and white chocolate chunks.
- Scoop about 2 tablespoons of the dough onto prepared baking sheets, leaving about 3 inches between cookies. Bake until edges are just turning brown and center looks slightly underdone, about 12 minutes. Cool a couple minutes on baking sheet, then remove a cooling rack.
- Makes about 3 dozen.
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This looks like one delicious cookie! My idea of a great recipe to try! You need to open a shop like “Mrs. Fields’!
What a delightful post Lizzy – your cookies look amazing and sound delicious. You had me giggling over the Kool Aid and cough drops! I can’t even look at all those amazing desserts from this challenge – wow!
Hi Lizzy! Happy Valentine’s Day!
I cannot say much about the taste until I try them but your brown cookies sure look awesome!
Next time I go to the US I will make sure to bring a lot of dried cranberries! I love oats and if you say these are the best… well they sure are!
These look so good! I think they’re healthy enough to eat for breakfast
Oh these just look so tasty! I love dried cherries! I eat them like candy
Oh I will check out this new group! And the cookies sound amazing. Cherries are on the top list of my fave fruit and I agree the tartness works perfectly her.
I can never resist an oatmeal cookie, these look wonderful!
Warm oatmeal raisin cookies are my absolute favorite. I’ll definitely have to try adding cherries next time.
Lizzy, I agree with the first poster – you need your own baker or Mrs Field’s type place. Do you have your own place by the way? Curious me.
Look really nice Lizzy!
Hope you have a nice Valentine’s day my friend!!
These actually do look amazing because I can see the cherries and hunks of white chocolate in them. I must try to make the Paleo version of them.
What a great cookie recipe! Thanks for participating in The Dessert Challenge. I can’t wait to see what you make for next month’s challenge. ~Sheryl @ Lady Behind The Curtain~
I made cookies like this once, years ago, and forgot all about them. I agree that these flavors work really well together! Can’t wait to try this recipe again.
Awesome looking cookies bet everyone went crazy for them as they would here…
I am planning on making your recipe this weekend
Thank you for sharing.
These cookies look and sound amazing! So thick and soft with all those add ins. My kind of cookies for sure
Your cookies look wonderful! I love the cherries and white chocolate combination.
Lliz~ these cookies look absolutely amazing!
I love cookies, somehow I can sit down with a cup of tea and eat one after another, after another :0!
Perhaps with the oatmeal in these I could call them Healthy Breakfast Cookies
They look so delicious
I just added you to my Foodie Friend Blogroll, I love reading your site.
Wonderful tip about avoiding the spread on the baking pan…You can bet I’m saving this recipe. I love oatmeal so much I sometimes have it for my supper carb!
P.s. Thank you for the reminder that not all people on planet earth love oatmeal, cherries and white chocolate =)
Lizzy, These look so rich and delicious….simply perfect for Valentine’s Day!!
Oh these look so good! I always love your recipes!
Beautiful cookies! And the mixture of chocolate and cherries is always a pure delight.
chocolate and cherries are just soooo delicious together – these sound amazing!
Great pairing of oatmeal and cherries. I know how looks can be deceiving sometimes not that your cookies don’t look good. Must be yummy.
Oh how I wish I had a stack of these and a glass of cold milk! And sitting with you, chatting and laughing would make it even better, though they’d probably have to drag us apart, we’d be talking so much about food an fun recipes!
I love that this cookie has so many different things going for it…ivy league! =)
These cookies look amazing, and I love oatmeal, so these are going on my “must make” list!
Woah, your husband doesnt like oatmeal in desserts OR cherries?! Something must be wrong with his taste buds
these cookies sound fantastic
These are my three favorite cookie ingredients! Guess I know what I’ll be baking this weekend.
I really love the texture of the dried cherries in cookies, and I can well imagine how beautifully it paired with the wonderful flavour of the white chocolate chunks. This cookie would not last long, knowing my family.
Just perfect cookies ! ^^
These cookies look terrific, Lizzy! I love the flavor combination!
Delicious!!! I could use one of these babies right now.
Hi love! I’m not sure if you received my last comment….I received a data base error when I tried to admit. Regardless, these cookies look just delicious, my friend! Thank you for sharing with me. I hope you had a fabulous week, and I hope your weekend brims with good food, laughter, and love.
Dried cherries are the only cherries I like. They are so good. Add chocolate and it doesn’t take much to convince me.
These cookies sound delish – I don’t mind that they are brown!
This is one of my favorite cookie flavor but I usually use dried cranberries instead of cherries because it is easier to come by the cranberries here.
Oh Lizzy ! You always make the prettiest cookies ! Love the dried cherries and white choco in these yummy cookies
Deeeeeelish! WOW.
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I am a huge fan of oatmeal cookies. These look fantastic!
Liz, these certainly sound like wonderful cookies – I love the ingredient list. Dried cherries used to be hard to find around here but I have now found a wonderful company that carries really good quality nuts and dried fruits and actually sells terrific dried cherries, year round – I think this recipe is a perfect reason to go out and get a fresh supply of dried cherries. I will use some white Lindt chocolate and all butter (as you pointed out, they will spread a bit more) and I am sure we will all be delighted! Love all your cookie posts! Full of delicious ideas!
Wow! What a delicious combination of ingredients! These look fantastic! I wish I could find dried cherries around where I live.. They are so hard to get a hold of here!!
white chocolate? cherry? oatmeal? i’m in!
Dried cherries and white chocolate are the perfect additions to these oatmeal cookies since raisins are NOT my favorites. They look wonderful.
So glad you stopped by last weekends link party and linked up these yummy looking cookies
Hope you can make it over again to link up this weekend