Almost Cherry Garcia Cookies
Source of Recipe
Marlen - Mimi's Cyber Kitchen
List of Ingredients
- 1 cup sour dried cherries
- 1/3 cup cherry brandy (I used marachino cherry juice)
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar - packed
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp almond extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup white chocolate - coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate - coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup macadamia nuts - coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Plump dried cherries by covering with boiling water and let stayd a few minutes (5?)
- Drain cherries and toss with cherry brandy or marachino cherry juice. Let stand until required or better, let sit over night. Drain cherries.
- Cream butter and sugars.
- Blend in egg, vanilla and almond extracts.
- Fold in salt, baking soda, flour.
- Fold in cherries, chocolates and nuts. Batter will be soft
- Drop in generous spoonfuls onto baking sheet lined with parchment (didn't use parchment)
- Bake at 350 degrees until lightly browned around edges, 12-14 minutes.
Final Comments
The 2nd time I made them, I added 1/4 cup of flour to see if that would stop them from running so much... also had to let them sit on cookie sheet for a few minutes so they were solid enough to lift off the pan.
Maybe use dark chocolate and white chocolate...?
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