Oatmeal Cookies with White Chocolate & Tart Cherries
Chewy oatmeal cookies with a delightful combination of white chocolate morsels and tart dried cherries for a little sweet, a little tart and repeat.
Soft and chewy oatmeal cookies are the best.
Especially when they have white chocolate morsels and tart dried cherries in each bite like these cookies do.
The white chocolate morsels give this cookie a wonderful, sweet bite to it and the dried cherries add a little tartness.
And these two flavors in combination with the heartiness of oatmeal taste divine.
There’s also a very subtle taste of salt in these cookies that is so good along with all of the flavors and textures going on in each bite.
About the Dried Cherries
Dried cherries may not always be available in the grocery store and if they are, a bag of them may be fairly expensive.
They’re generally located by where the raisins are.
If the grocery store has bulk-type bins with nuts and grains, they may also have dried cherries.
I buy dried cherries at a local ranch-type market where they sell them in bulk in a bin.
This way I get just the amount that I need plus a few for snacking of course.
Serve these oatmeal cookies as a snack, dessert or just because.
Let’s check out the ingredients.
Uncooked quick or old-fashioned oats (not the instant type), dried cherries, white chocolate morsels, butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, flour, ground cinnamon, baking soda, vanilla extract and salt
HOW TO MAKE THIS RECIPE
A printable recipe with the measurements and instructions is located at the bottom of this post.
(In case you may notice any quantity differences between the pictures below and the actual written recipe…in the following step-by-step pictures, I made a half-batch of these delicious cookies).
The written recipe at the bottom of this post reflects the full recipe.
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a cookie sheet with butter.
Set aside.
If preferred, instead of greasing the pan with butter, a sheet of parchment paper or a silicone mat can be placed on the pan.
Dry Ingredients:
In a medium size bowl, add flour…
…baking soda…
…salt…
…and…
…ground cinnamon.
Whisk together…
…and set aside.
COOKIE DOUGH
Butter and Sugars:
In a large mixing bowl add softened butter…
…brown sugar…
…and granulated sugar.
Beat with a hand or stand mixer until light and fluffy.
Vanilla and Eggs:
To the large mixing bowl, add vanilla extract…
…and eggs.
TIP – Rather than adding the eggs directly into the mixing bowl, first crack them into a small bowl just in case there is a bad egg.
This way the bad egg won’t contaminate the ingredients that are already in the mixing bowl.
Beat in the vanilla and eggs.
Add Dry Ingredients:
To the mixing bowl, add the flour mixture a little at a time.
Set the mixer on low and…
…gradually beat in the flour mixture.
With a soft spatula, scrape any residual flour off the sides of the mixing bowl and stir it into the dough.
Oats, Dried Cherries and White Chocolate Morsels:
To the mixing bowl, add oatmeal…
…dried cherries…
…and white chocolate morsels.
Using a soft spatula or large sturdy spoon…
…stir together…
…until combined.
To the greased cookie sheet…
…drop the dough by 2 rounded tablespoons per cookie…
…that are spaced a couple inches apart.
Bake
Bake in a preheated oven (350 degrees F.) until the edges are a light golden brown and the middle of the cookies are still soft (10 to 11 minutes).
TIP – For a chewy cookie, remove the cookies from the oven while the middle is still soft.
Cool and Serve
Transfer the cookies onto a wire rack…
…and…
…cool before serving.
This recipe is adapted from Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies.
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Oatmeal Cookies with Tart Cherries and White Chocolate Morsels
Ingredients
For Greasing the Cookie Pan:
- 2 tablespoons butter or the pan can be lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat
For the Dry Ingredients:
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
FOR THE COOKIE DOUGH:
- 1 cup butter, softened (salted)
- 1 cup (firmly packed) brown sugar light or dark
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- Dry Ingredients
Oats, Dried Cherries and White Chocolate Morsels
- 3 cups uncooked quick or old-fashioned oats (not the instant type)
- 1-1/3 cups dried cherries
- 1-1/3 cups white chocolate chip morsels
Equipment
- Large Cookie Sheet/Sheets (18" x 13") (half the size of a full sheet pan)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
For the Cookie Sheet Pan:
- Grease a cookie sheet with butter (instead of greasing the cookie sheet with butter, the pan can be lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat if preferred). Set aside.
For the Dry Ingredients:
- In a medium size bowl add the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Whisk together and set aside.
FOR THE COOKIE DOUGH:
- Butter and Sugar - in a large mixing bowl, add the softened butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Beat with a hand or stand mixer until light and fluffy.
- Vanilla and Eggs - in the large mixing bowl, add vanilla extract and eggs*. Beat in the vanilla and eggs.*Rather than adding the eggs directly into the mixing bowl, first crack them into a small bowl just in case there is a bad egg. This way the bad egg won't contaminate the ingredients that are already in the mixing bowl.
- To the mixing bowl, add the flour mixture a little at a time. Set the mixer on low and gradually beat in the flour mixture.
- With a soft spatula, scrape any residual flour off the sides of the mixing bowl and stir it into the dough.
- Oats, Dried Cherries and White Chocolate Morsels - To the mixing bowl, add oatmeal, dried cherries and white chocolate morsels. Using a soft spatula or large spoon, stir together until combined.
- To the cookie sheet, drop the dough by 2 rounded tablespoons per cookie that are spaced a couple inches apart.
BAKE:
- Bake in a preheated oven (at 350 degrees F.) until the edges of the cookies are a light golden brown and the middle of the cookies are still soft (10 to 11 minutes).
COOL AND SERVE:
- Transfer the cookies onto a wire rack and cool before serving.
Recipe adapted from Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies.
Notes
TIPS:
- Rather than adding the eggs directly into the mixing bowl, first crack them into a small bowl just in case there is a bad egg. This way the bad egg won't contaminate the ingredients that are already in the mixing bowl.
- For a chewy cookie, remove the cookies from the oven while the middle is still soft.
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