Dear Readers,
I found this cookie recipe in a recent “Costco Connection” magazine. My husband declared it one of the best cookies I’ve ever baked. I must admit I agreed. The combination of chocolate chips and dried cherries is a winning one.
Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies
4.5 ounces (about1 cup) flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
2/3 cup dried tart cherries
3 tablespoons Kirkland’s semi-sweet chocolate chips
Cooking spray
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients, stirring with a whisk. Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at high speed until well blended. Add vanilla and egg; beat well. With mixer at low speed, gradually add flour mixture; beat just until combined. Stir in cherries and chocolate chips.
2. Drop by tablespoonsful 2 inches apart onto baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Bake for 12 minutes or just until set. Remove from oven; cool on pans 5 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks.
Makes about 30 cookies. Each cookie contains 80 calories and 2.7 grams of fat.
Note: The next time I bake these cookies, I will add two extra tablespoons of chocolate chips. I used Trader Joe’s Dried Pitted Tart Montmorency Cherries that come in an eight ounce package. Instead of coating the baking sheets with cooking spray, I lined them with aluminum foil. It makes cleaning up a lot easier.
Enjoy and
Keep smilin’!
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