Let me give you some life advice. It’s best to always have some homemade cookie dough stashed in the freezer for when an emergency strikes! And when that dough comes in the form of Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies…. you’re winning at life.
Freezer cookie dough is mandatory at the Dawson / Dalkin household. It’s always there, and always pre-portioned. That way when the sweet tooth strikes, I can quickly grab a cookie dough ball or two and pop it in the oven to bake!
These Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies have been the most recent stash in the freezer and I can’t get enough. All that chocolate, the chewy dried cherries and the salt on top… YES YES AND YES.
Make these this weekend and you’ll be in BUSINESS!
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 8 oz unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 3/4 cups old-fashioned oats
- 8 ounces semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips
- 8 ounces semi-sweet or dark chocolate disks rough chop
- 1 cup dried tart cherries
- maldon sea salt flakes for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large mixer, combine the softened butter and brown sugar with a paddle attachment. Let whisk for 2 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract. Add the flour, baking soda, sea salt and baking powder and slowly combine, making sure not to overmix the batter. Add the oats, chocolate chips and chocolate discs and cherries and combine. Refrigerate batter for 1 hour.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop 12 cookies (2 tablespoons each) onto each parchment lined baking sheet and dust with a few maldon sea salt flakes. Transfer sheets into oven and bake for 10-12 minutes until the cookies just slightly turn a golden brown color on the edges but are still soft and chewy in the middle. Remove from oven, carefully bang the bottom of the pan on a flat surface to make the cookies a bit more dense and release any air bubbles and transfer to cooling rack. Repeat process for remaining dough.
I love dried cherries! By far my favorite dried fruit.
my BFF Matt Armendariz = I can’t wait to meet him on Saturday! 🙂
the cookies look awesome!!
dried cherries are the best ever – well, next to dried strawberries. but the best in these cookies for sure!
Yummy cookies today! Love those tart cherries 🙂
What a good combo! Good thing I have a big bag of dried cherries!
you are obsessed with a lot of things! OCD?! Obsessive Cherry Disorder
Will HAVE to try
You are determined to add to the size of my hips. This sounds so good!
Sounds like my kinda cookie — not too sweet 😉 YUM!
Just posted on my wall. Can’t wait to try!
These sound delightful! Love these 🙂
i’m a sucker for cherry/chocolate combos!!!
these look awesome and now i’m kicking myself for not buying dried cherries today… i almost did!!
i’ll have to go get some tomorrow!!
Ok, these I definitely have to try! Chocolate + Cherries = FANTASTIC!
If these cookies taste as great as your M&M cookies, then I’m going to NEED to make them. Since they have oatmeal and cherries in the ingredients list, could they be considered a breakfast food? If so, they’re totally going to be made and brought to my early morning baking commitment. Awesome!
Brooke
trader joe’s sells these dried tart montmorency cherries, they are the yummiest thing ever. i definitely want to try putting them in a cookie! thanks for the great idea.
Cherries + Chocolate = Delicious combination!
These cookies look simply delectable. Chocolate + cherries… yum!
I made these and they are wonderful! Plus Cherries are in season right now and taste great fresh!
I’ve never had cookies before with cherries.
I love anything with tart cherries! Especially cookies!
Magic combo! Definitely just gained a top spot on my “must try” list (*)>
Hi Gaby
What brand of dried tart cherries are you referring to.
I am just curious; why is there baking soda and baking flour in the cookies?
Also, could you sub AP flour for whole wheat flour? Would I need to adjust the moisture content of the batter?
whole wheat flour would make the cookies more dense which i didn’t want. And there is baking soda and baking powder in almost every cookie recipe!
I do em as CCC’s chocolate cherry coconut
Win, win win! I never thought about pre-portioning the dough in the freezer. Genius! I usually bake them and then freeze them. I like your way better – then they are super fresh!!
What type of chocolate.?.?
I am assuming one of the 8 oz. is semi sweet? What type is the other 8 oz. ? dark chocolate? Milk chocolate?
Please answer quickly as I am hoping to make today.
Thx
dark or semi sweet for either!
Great recipe of cherry chocolate chip cookies. Thanks Farhat Sweets
Any special instructions for baking from frozen?
remove dough from freezer, let rest for about 30 mins at room temp and then bake!
Cookies are wonderful. Actually I have not seen both baking powder and soda in a cookie recipe so I looked it up. This is what I found.
Now the reason why both soda and powder might be used is because you might have enough soda to neutralize the acid in a recipe, but not actually enough to lift the batter. In these cases, Geiger says that a little baking powder will give the extra lift needed to make the recipe perfect. You could use baking powder alone, but then your finished baked treat might taste too acidic.
Geiger says that you might also use both soda and powder when you want the recipe to taste a little tangy or develop a nice browned color. Baking soda is the key to both of these!
What is done with the rough chop chocolate disks?
into the dough with the cherries and oats!!
Is it okay to refrigerate longer before baking?
totally