Chewy White Chocolate and Tart Cherry Cookies
These chewy white chocolate and tart cherry cookies don't require a special occasion to bake. Just because is a good reason.
Ingredients
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup (firmly packed) brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 package (12 ounces) white chocolate chips or chunks equals about 2 cups of white chocolate chips or chunks
- 1-1/2 cups dried cherries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a medium size bowl, add flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir the dry ingredients together and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl add the butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and beat until creamy. Mix in the eggs.
- On a low speed (so the flour doesn’t come out of the bowl), gradually add the flour mixture in with the cookie dough mixture. Mix well.
- To the mixing bowl, add white morsels, and dried cherries. With a large sturdy spoon or spatula, stir together all ingredients.
- On an ungreased cookie sheet, drop the cookie dough by about 2 rounded teaspoons. Bake in the preheated oven.
- For a chewy cookie, let them bake until the cookie looks like it’s not quite done in the middle (about 7 to 7-1/2 minutes depending on your oven and size of the cookie).
- Remove from the oven and carefully transfer the cookies from the baking sheet with a spatula on to a wire rack and let cool a few minutes until the cookies are set.
- As the cookie sits on the rack there should be just enough heat left for the middle to firm up but still be chewy.
- Recipe adapted from Nestles Tollhouse Cookies.