Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries

Name: Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries
Yield: Makes sixteen 4-inch cookies
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (6 1/4 ounces); 3/4 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1 1/4 cups, rolled oats, old-fashioned, (3 1/2 ounces); 1 cup, toasted pecans (4 ounces), chopped; 1 cup, dried tart cherries (5 ounces), chopped coarse; 4 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, chopped into chunks about size of chocolate chips (about 3/4 cup); 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool; 1 1/2 cups, packed brown sugar (10 1/2 ounces), preferably dark; 1 , large egg; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2005, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

What could be better than an oatmeal cookie crammed with dozens of ingredients? How about an oatmeal cookie with just the right ingredients.

SERVESMakes sixteen 4-inch cookies

TIME1 hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To add four flavor components—sweet, tangy, nutty, and chocolaty—to the underlying oat flavor of our oatmeal cookie recipe, we chose bittersweet chocolate, dried sour cherries (or cranberries), and toasted pecans. During our testing, we dis...

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