Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries

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

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

SERVES Makes sixteen 4-inch cookies

TIME 1 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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