The Best Chewy Chocolate Chunks and Cherry Cookies Recipe Ever

The Best Chewy Chocolate Chunks and Cherry Cookies Recipe Ever…I Would Give Up Chocolate-But I Am Not A Quitter.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup bread flour (makes a better texture)
1/3 cup and two tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon kosher sea salt
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/3 cup unsalted butter (softened)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/3 cup of fruity red wine (sit 1/3 cup aside for cooking the cherries and 1 cup for you while the cookies are baking
1 large egg (room temperature)
2/3 cup dried tart cherries (about 6 oz I use 8oz because I like fruitier and chewier cookies)
2/3 tablespoons semisweet chocolate chips or chunks the darker and more cocoa percent the better (you can add less but these are CHOCOLATE cookies)
Butter cooking spray

PREPARATION:

• Preheat oven to 350°

• Wine poached your cherries…Dried fruit are usually plumped up and softened by a soak in hot water. Give the cherries some flavor at the same time, simmer them in a fruity red wine, add a dash of cinnamon, fresh ground nutmeg and ancho chile powders give them some WOW-power (cinnamon, nutmeg and ancho are wonderful with dark chocolate)

• Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife

• Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk

• Place sugar and butter in a large bowl and beat with a mixer at high speed until well blended.

• Add vanilla and egg and beat well

• With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture

• Beat just until combined

• Fold in cherries and chocolate chips or chunks

• Spray your cookie sheets with cooking spray

• Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto baking sheets

• Bake at 350° for 12 minutes or just until set.

• Time to drink that cup of wine that you set aside for your self.

• Remove from oven

• Cool on cookie sheets 5 minutes

• Remove from cookie sheets and cool completely on wire racks

• Try not to eat any or there won’t be any left…

Cookie Options:
You can also use cranberries instead of cherries.
You can mix your chocolate up and use white chocolate as well
You can add nuts, macadamia’s would be my choice. 2/3 to 1 cup will mix well

This is not one of my Heart Healthy Recipes. Sometimes you have to have something for the soul. That is what this cookie is all about.

This recipe makes about 28-30 of The Best Chewy Chocolate Chunks and Cherry Cookies Ever that you will ever sink your teeth into.

Bon Appetit
~The Baby Boomer Queen~

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