Oatmeal, Dried Cherry and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These Oatmeal, Dried Cherry and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies will rock your taste buds. Plus a little almond extract makes these oatmeal cookies unforgettable!
Oatmeal, Dried Cherry and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
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 oatmeal, dried cherry and white chocolate chunk cookies are sensational!!
Oatmeal Cookies for the Dessert Challenge!
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! And if you adore oatmeal cookies as much as I do, these triple chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies are also divine!
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.
Tips for Making This Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
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.
FFwD friends, you can find the Coeur a la Creme post I made HERE. I will catch up with you next Friday when we all share Pea Soup.
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Oatmeal, Dried Cherry and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Oatmeal, Dried Cherry and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies will rock your taste buds!
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 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.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
36Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 138Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 22mgSodium: 93mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 1gSugar: 10gProtein: 2g
47 Comments on “Oatmeal, Dried Cherry and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies”
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 🙂
Dried cherries and white chocolate are the perfect additions to these oatmeal cookies since raisins are NOT my favorites. They look wonderful. 🙂
white chocolate? cherry? oatmeal? i’m in!
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!!
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!
I am a huge fan of oatmeal cookies. These look fantastic!
Deeeeeelish! WOW.
Liz, I just tried to subscribe again and it will not let me. Can you do this for me? siammuse@msn.com xx