Dark Chocolate Cherry Cookies
Servings 36 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup dark cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup butter softened
- 2 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large Pete and Gerry Organic Eggs
- 1 ½ cup dried tart cherries
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Cherry Glaze
- ½ cup tart cherry juice Trader Joes has a great one we use! This can also be found in organic juice section at grocery
- 2 cups powder sugar more or less for the consistency you want
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in middle position
- Measure all dry ingredients into a bowl
- Using a whisk, blend them, sit aside
- Blend softened butter and sugar in mixer till fluffy
- Add in eggs one at a time
- Add in vanilla
- While mixer is on low speed, add in dry ingredients a little at a time
- Fold in cherries and chocolate chips making sure to thoroughly distribute
- Coat a cookie sheet with spray oil
- Use a small ice cream scoop to scoop uniform balls of dough, 2 inches apart onto cookie pans
- Bake 12 minutes, rotating pans half way through
- Cool cookies on a wire rack
- While cookies are baking, mix together glaze
- Adjust glaze by adding more juice or powder sugar to get it to the consistency of honey
- When cookies have completely cooled, drizzle glaze over them and allow to set up
- Store cookies in covered container
Notes
You can adapt this recipe using dried cranberries and cranberry juice, if you can not find dried cherries and cherry juice.