Cherry Chocolate Chunk Cookies Recipe

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These rich, fudgy cookies from Trisha Kruse in Eagle, Idaho are chewy and studded with tangy dried cherries. “It’s a good thing the recipe makes only a small batch,” she laughs, “because we eat them all in one night!”

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Cherry Chocolate Chunk Cookies Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Yield: 10 Servings

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Ingredients

1/4 cup butter, softened
6 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons beaten egg
4 teaspoons 2% milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons baking cocoa
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chunks
1/4 cup dried cherries

Directions

In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in the egg, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate and cherries.
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto baking sheets lightly coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 12-14 minutes or until firm. Cool for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack. Yield: 10 cookies.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 156 calories, 8 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 25 mg cholesterol, 98 mg sodium, 22 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 starch, 1 fat.

Originally published as Cherry Chocolate Chunk Cookies in Cooking for 2 Winter 2007, p47