Choco-Cherry-Nutty Oatmeal Cookies

Choco-Cherry-Nutty- Oatmeal Cookies

“I learned from my Granny to always bake one cookie sheet at a time, for a more evenly baked cookie – Unless you have a convection oven.”

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 tbsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt (optional)

1 ¼ cups packed brown sugar

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

½ cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

2 Tbs Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract *

2 ½ cups quick oats

2 cups Ghirardelli** 60% cacao bittersweet baking chips

1 cup dried cherries

1 cup chopped pecans

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Sift flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and set aside. In a mixer on medium speed cream the brown sugar, butter and granulated sugar until creamy.  Slowly add eggs and vanilla extract.  Gradually beat in flour/dry mixture.  Add oats, baking chips, pecans and cherries.  Do not over mix.

Drop soup-spoon sized dollops onto un-greased baking sheets (I usually put parchment paper down just in case).  Bake for 9-10 minutes for chewy cookies (my personal favorite), or 12-13 minutes for crispier cookies.   Bake one sheet at a time.***  Cool on baking sheet for 1 minute then remove to wire racks to cool.

Food For Thought:

*Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract is a few dollars more than regular vanilla extract, but well worth it!

**Use good chocolate like Ghirardelli…it makes a HUGE difference when you have good chocolate chips.

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