Move over Oatmeal Raisin Cookies! There’s a new cookie in town!
These Chewy Cherry Oatmeal Cookies are similar to classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, but a lot more fun with sweet and tangy dried cherries mixed in. Here’s another recipe to add to your Cookie Friday collection!
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup ground flaxseed meal
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup dried cherries
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350*F.
- Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well until batter is blended evenly.
- Portion cookies on a greased baking sheet, approximately 1-2 inches apart.
- Bake cookies for approximately 12-15 minutes.
- Remove cookies from baking sheet and allow to cool on wire rack.
- Eat and enjoy!
Makes 8-10 cookies
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These sound awesome Tina! I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with the dried tart cherries we got at FitBloggin’….
I love dried cherries! Very simple recipe.
whoa these look good! I was also drooling over mama pea’s chocolate cherry cookies! 0_0 I noticed you don’t use baking powder/soda in a lot of your baked goods–do you think they still come out just as good? not sure if you answered it somewhere else before.
@Ellie@fitforthesoul: They tasted great! Why would they need baking powder or baking soda?
I wonder if these would work with fresh cherries? I have been buying cherries by the bunches from my local market and would love to try! I’ve always wanted to try making a cherry muffin instead of the typical blueberry too…hmmm?!
I love cherries — these would be good with some choc chips thrown in there too!
@Holly @ The Runny Egg: That’s what I was thinking – but that’s pretty much my theory about anything – chocolate chips will make everything better!
I love dried fruit in cookies. Will have to try this one!
Tina they look great!
I love dried cherries and have a raw/nobake chocolate chocolate-chip cookie dough ball recipe with dried cherries.
And I love oatmeal raisin cookies.
Perfect pairing w/ the cherries
Would you share that recipe with me, please? I do 80 to 90 percent raw. And no refined sugars or flours. Thnx!
@Yolanda:
go to my site, it’s in my dessert recipes called
raw vegan dark chocolate cherry balls
don’t want to just link drop on Tina’s site
ohh yey for cookie friday!
I do love dried cherries I just wish that unsweetened ones were available for less money!
These sound delicious! I better Choc chips and coconut would take these cookies to the next level!
I can do these!
Yay–they look so good.
Oh I love oatmeal in cookies. YUMM. thanks
Yum, can’t wait to try these!!!!
Mmmm…these look delicious. And I just bought a whole bag of dried cherries a few days ago! What a coincidence!
I can’t believe how delicious EVERYTHING you make looks!!!
Cherries in an oatmeal cookie sound SO delicious! Good thinkin’!
Oooh these sound SO good! I used to have cherry oatmeal cookies as a kid but I’m glad to have found this to re-make them! Dried cherries are my favourite
Yay I have dried cherries at home. They sound great!
Yum! This reminds me… when I was staying with my friends on-base in Germany, they had these delicious red, white, and blue cookies. They were sugar cookies with blueberries, white chocolate chips, and cranberries and I was addicted to them!! I bet the combo would be delicious in an oatmeal cookie, too!!
Those sound amazing!
I love dried cherries! These oatmeal cookies look great! I’m so glad I have all these ingredients in my kitchen right now
Yay Cookie Friday!!! These look AMAZING
You should bring these to share with the Double Tree staff! Maybe they’ll add your cookies to their rotation??
I just cracked open a bag of dried cherries
I love them!
Oatmeal cookies always make me smile! My grandma spent ~14 years to perfect her recipe and I cherish it as I am the only grandchild with the recipe! HA
dried cherries = crack
Thanks for the recipe. I have been making your cookies each week for my boys and they always love them!
Oatmeal cookies are the best! Especially when they’re made with butter.
Cookies look really good. That buffalo chicken sandwich looked amazing, I love Buffalo Hot Sauce.
Hey….love the recipes, but wondering about calorie counts on your yummy goodies! Most recipes I can’t seem to find the calorie counts…..which when you are trying to shed a few pounds could be quite handy! Thanks so much!
I’m definitely adding this, because I love tangy cranberries and hate squidgy-poo raisins!
who doesn’t love chewy! these look fantastic
I’m so going to make those cookies! They look perfect.
and chewy!
Just made these cookies. Soooooo good. I added 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips too!
These look awesome. I want to make them today, but don’t have the flax… would I just use more oats maybe?
@Kris: You could probably just omit it, but if the batter is runny, just throw in some more oats!
@Tina: @Tina: @Tina: @Tina:
I would think the addition of a leavener would affect the texture more than the taste. They just create air bubbles so the texture is a little lighter. I make cookies for my dog and I generally leave out any baking powder or baking soda because I seem to remember reading somewhere that it’s not great for dogs and the cookies are always flatter & don’t really ‘rise.’
@Kelly:
Whoops. Not sure why it posted @Tina three times.
Thanks!
Sound delish! Thanks for sharing this recipe. It’s great to see that the ingredients wouldn’t be hard to find in our grocery stores.
I made these yesterday and they turned out great. I made half as is and the other half with dark chocolate chips. Thanks again for a great recipe!
I have made these cookies before and loved them: but today i made them and they never flattened out- any idea on why this would happen?
@lindsay: Hmm… did you use an entire stick of butter?
@Tina: yes i used the whole stick of butter
i thought i followed the recipe exactly….. bummer
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