A Classic -- the chocolate chip cookie +

6/17/2009

I'm sure we all have out favorite. This one is mine.

CHOCOLATE CHIP-DRIED CHERRY-PECAN COOKIES

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 large egg, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup dried sour cherries
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

1. Preheat oven to 375˚F.
2. In a large bowl, combine the granulated and brown sugars and butter. Mix well. Add the egg and vanilla and continue to mix until smooth. In another bowl combine the flour, soda and salt. Add this to the sugar-butter mixture and mix until it is just combined. Fold in the chocolate, cherries and pecans.
3. Drop small mounds of dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake on the oven's middle rack for 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack

12 Comments

Celeste Maia link

6/18/2009 04:48:02 am

I am eating one of your scrumptious chocolate chip-cherry-peacan cookies. I made a batch as I had 5 kids coming after school for tea this afternoon. They gobbled them up! Divine cookies. The only change I made was to use whole wheat flour instead of the unbleached flour. They came out just right. Thanks for the great recipe.

Julia @ Mélanger link

6/18/2009 08:50:37 pm

Snap, I just made chocolate chip cookies, too. :)

amy link

6/20/2009 07:38:23 pm

thanks for sharing your favourite:)

Joanna

10/14/2013 01:40:59 am

Made these just now and they're are great. My house smells like vanilla. I have used coconut oil in place of butter, 1 cup of brown sugar, added some cinnamon into the flour mixture and used only chocolate chips. This recipe is a keeper. Thanks Eileen.

Eileen

10/14/2013 01:51:06 am

Joanna,
So glad you liked them!

dee

7/13/2017 12:54:08 pm

Hi have a question, do I need to put the dough in the fridge for at least one hour? the dough is very soft, and I just made a batch, and they turned into flat cookies, not small and pudgy like yours. what did I do wrong? I do bake-help

Eileen

7/13/2017 06:52:04 pm

Hi Dee --
I'm sorry you had problems with the cookies. I've never chilled the dough before, but I would certainly try that. Let me know how that works!

Dee

7/14/2017 02:36:48 pm

Hi Eileen, me Dee again, Lol.....I made the whole batch. the cookies are delish! but I wanted them to look pudgy like yours. I tried dropping them smaller then a kitchen tsp, but they were just small and flat, well there was more to eat that small, lol....I did chill some of the dough, but they still turned out flat. Can you suggest anything to make them puffier? Thanks
will still make them again, very good cookie

dee

7/14/2017 02:47:44 pm

Me Dee, Eileen I was reading one of your other cookie recipes, and it asks for baking powder, would these choc. chip cookies that i made, would it be okay to use baking powder? would that puff them up a little? what would you say? let me know

Eileen

7/16/2017 12:35:40 pm

Hi Dee--
I've been thinking about your difficulties with this cookie and I really don't know why this is happening. Is your oven temp calibrated correctly? I will make them again in the next few weeks and will get back to you.

Dee

7/31/2017 10:22:19 am

Hi Eileen, Friday I did have my oven calibrated, it seems it was a bit off, so I'm happy it's been taken care of. Well here I go again, I made the cookies again, and still flat. I even printed the recipe in Giant size! incase I had missed something! Lol.... but still flat. of course all gobled up, we really love them. we've decided that's the way they'll be, flat and delish. My husband too funny! he suggested squeezing two cookies together, to make them puffy, NOT.....Lol...........

Eileen

7/31/2017 12:03:58 pm

Dee -- I know I said I'd make these cookies again. I love Costco's dried sour cherries and I am going there tomorrow. So once I have those, I will bake the cookies again and let you know what happens.

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