These chewy oatmeal cherry cookies are significantly better than oatmeal raisin cookies. (I don’t mind oatmeal raisin, but apparently, there’s a lot of people that are very strongly opposed, perhaps to repulsion).
I should warn you that this cookie recipe needs to come with a disclaimer. You are going to love these delicious cookies so much that you might end up hating them, because you can’t stop eating them.
Seriously, they are THAT good. Please don’t ask me how many of these cookies I ate from this one batch of cookies (I stopped counting at 4…)
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Why you’ll love this recipe
Recipe tips
My favorite baking items:
- Medium Sized Cookie Scoop
- Nonstick cookie slider (the cookies just slide right off, without grease or a spatula – seriously!)
- Cooling rack
- Mixer (this is the one I have, which is powerful enough to knead bread dough)
The Best Chewy Oatmeal Cherry Cookies
These chewy oatmeal cherry cookies are so delicious! The tart cherries are the perfect complement to the sweet cookie!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 cup of dried cherries
Instructions
- Sift flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt into a small mixing bowl.
- Using a mixer, cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light in color (3-4 minutes at medium speed).
- Add eggs and vanilla to butter and sugar in the mixing bowl. Mix until eggs are fully incorporated.
- With mixer at a low speed, slowly add flour mixture to the mixing bowl contents. Then add the oats.
- Fold the dried cherries into the cookie batter using a spatula.
- Refrigerate the cookie batter for at least an hour.
- After an hour (or more), allow the batter to warm up slightly (so it's not so hard to scoop). Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Using a medium-sized cookie scoop, scoop cookie dough into balls and place on a cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes, or until edges are slightly brown but centers aren't quite set.
- Enjoy!
Stay savvy (and don’t eat too many of these delicious cookies!)
