It’s cookie season! Yay, to that—so, starting now until Christmas I will be sharing a cookie a week. To kick things off, I made you guys some oatmeal cookies pumped full of dried sour cherries and chopped chocolate. In between that you’ll find, toasted almonds, pecans, some coconut – and a lot of vanilla extract. It’s almost a dump cookie, by that I mean I threw in what I had to clean-up.
If you bake as much as I do, you always have all these bags with just a few ounces of this or that. Admittedly, sometimes. . . I will clean out my pantry and throw away these almost-emptied bags. I know it’s awful and wasteful, but for my peace of mind, I just have to. Have to. Please tell me I’m not the only one that does this.
I can’t stand the nuisance of having so little of something taking up space in my pantry—multiply that by 5, 10 or 20, depending on the season, and you’ll see that amounts to a lot of baggies stacked on top of one another to create a mountain of messiness.
See what I mean—madness. And anyone who knows me knows I don’t need any more of that.
Now that we’ve established I’m a wasteful person, let’s just skip to why you should make these cookies: (1) awesome flavor profile (2) and my favorite . . . these have the perfect cookie texture—chewy center with a crisp edge.
No more reasons needed.
Sour Cherry and Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons lightly packed brown sugar (4 oz.)
- 2 1/2 cups rolled oats (8 oz.)
- 2 cups chopped dark chocolate (9.5 0z)
- 3/4 cup dried sour cherries
- 3/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
- 1/3 cup shredded sweetened coconut
- 1 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 large egg + 1 largeegg yolk
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
Preparation: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 4 bake sheets with parchment paper
In a bowl, combine and whisk both sugar until well blended. Add in rolled oats, chocolate, cherries, almonds, pecans, coconut and whisk to combine. In a separate bowl, whisk butter, eggs and vanilla until well combined. Pour butter mixture into sugar and stir until well combined. In a third bowl, sift flour, cinnamon and baking soda. Combine flour mixture into the other ingredients and stir to combine.
Form 1 inch dough balls and place a dozen on each bake sheet. Bake in the center of the oven, one bake sheet at a time for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms are a golden brown. Remove from oven and transfer to a wire rack and cool.
Love that you’re sharing one cookie recipe per week til Xmas! YAY for holiday baking kicking off!
These look awesome – love the cranberry, oats, chocolate, so much going on! pinned
Yum and yay to these cookies – I can definitely imagine how much flavour and texture is going on in there! Now I just need to find a proper package of the cherries to skip the part with the small remains 😉 nevertheless thanks for sharing!!
I can not believe it so close to Christmas! I am super excited to see what you have instal for us. I may get inspiration for own cookie recipes. Love the photo comp here.
These are gorgeous and love the flavor combo!
A cookie recipe a week?!?! YES!! That is such a fun idea and I am loving your first cookie! 🙂
Wow, Naomi, you are amazing! I love holiday baking and can’t wait to try out some of your favorites! Also, I am loving that vintage milk bottle!
i LOVE a chewy center and crispy edge!! adore the sour cherry and chocolate combo in this!
Bring it on!! These photos are gorgeous, Naomi!
I will take a dozen!
You’re absolutely not the only one who does that. I wish I were one of those bakers with a beautiful baking cabinet, but instead it’s bags on top of bags. That being said, there’s still that intuition where somehow you know where everything is. Light brown sugar? Corner to the left under the whole wheat flour. Ha!
You are in my top 5 bloggers with incredible food pictures. Wow, does it ever look good. I pinned all of your pics 🙂 Have a wonderful day with your family.
I’m totally down for a cookie a week! Cherries and chocolate are one of my favorite combos. These look delicious, Naomi!
My pantry looks like crap. Try all those tiny bags that they sell GF flours in- it is a total dump. My husband would just die to be able to throw it all out!! But on a happy note- these are just AMAZING. Sour cherries are my fav.
Looking forward to the cookies each week! These look great 🙂
These cookies are so decadent! As always your photos are gorgeous!
I am a huge fan of cherry and chocolate combo! These cookies sound amazing! Pinned of course!
I’ve been thinking about these cookies all morning. Some of the prettiest photos I’ve seen in a long time, Naomi. <3
Big yes to a cookie a week, bring it on!
Sour Cherries in cookies.. I’m in love! And Heck Yea to cookies.. gimme all the cookie recipes.. 🙂
You are not alone in being wasteful with those little bits. In our family, it’s genetic. My mom is big-time wasteful, and it seems I am passing it along to my daughter.
Two thumbs up for a cookie a week!
Gorgeous cookies! Sour cherry? What a neat flavour combo!
A cookie a week! I want to live at your house!
I have an urge to name these cookies “Loaded with Goodies”. About those almost empty bags of stuff, I hear ya! My freezer has a few bags of a lil bit of walnuts, lil bit of almonds… Now I know how to get rid of them! Thanks, Naomi!
I have been thinking about these allll day!! My baking binge is at an all time high – and I’m adding these to the list ASAP!
I am SO excited to see all of your cookie recipes, up until christmas!! I love that idea 🙂
To kick off the – what I’m sure will be amazing – line up, these bad boys are calling my name!!
YYUUUMMM
Yeah, I’m totally cool with a cookie a week until christmas 🙂 These look fantastic!
These look fantastic. They have my dad’s name all over ’em. I have a large cache of frozen sour cherries (not dried) any thoughts on how to sub those? They came from Dad’s tree, so it seems like a fair use of them.