Chocolate-Cherry Bar Cookies with Hazelnuts

Name: Chocolate-Cherry Bar Cookies with Hazelnuts
Yield: Makes about 50 cookies
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (12 1/2 ounces/354 grams); 3/4 cup, superfine sugar (5 1/2 ounces/156 grams); 1 cup, dried chopped cherries; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), cut into sixteen 1/2-inch pieces, at cool room temperature (about 65 degrees); 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons, cream cheese, at room temperature; 1 1/2 cups, semisweet chocolate chips (9 ounces/255 grams); 1 1/2 cups, hazelnuts (7 ounces/198 grams), toasted, skinned, and chopped

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Cookies

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2003

Rolling out cookie dough is a sticky business. Most recipes add excess flour, and the resulting cookies are tough. Could we make tender, crispy cookies that roll out easily?

SERVES Makes about 50 cookies

TIME 1½ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

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