Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cherries

Name: Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with 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; 2 1/4 cups, rolled oats, old-fashioned, (6 1/3 ounces/179 grams); 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

Desserts or Baked Goods
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2006

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 hour, plus 20 minutes cooling

Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cherries

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