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; 177 grams); 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; 99 grams); 1 cup, toasted pecans (4 ounces; 113 grams), chopped; 1 cup, dried tart cherries (5 ounces; 142 grams), chopped coarse; 4 ounces (113 grams), 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; 298 grams), 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

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Chocolate

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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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