A chewy chocolate chip cookie loaded with oatmeal, dried cherries and toffee. The toffee adds crunch and a delicious caramel flavor, which blends perfectly with the rich chocolate chips. For me though, it’s the dried cherries that make this an unforgettable cookie.
Recently Emily, Is This Really My Live, asked me to share my favorite cookie for her back to school treat series. I shared this long time family favorite cookie recipe with Emily and I thought it would also be perfect to include in my 12 Weeks of Christmas Treats this year.
This cookie is the one of the reasons I started Barbara Bakes. My daughter called me late at night and asked me for this cookie recipe – again. I got out of bed and gave her the recipe, but I decided I should put my recipes online so they would be easy to share.
It was one of the first recipes I shared on Barbara Bakes. Over the years I’ve adapted it for my altitude, and switched it from a slice and bake cookie to a drop cookie. It was Martha Stewart’s “Cookie of the Year,” on her TV show in 1998. Martha called it an Oatmeal Toffee Cookie but I call it a Cherry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Toffee Cookie because cherries are the star of the show.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup light-brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups oatmeal
- 1 cup dried cherries, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup HEATH English Toffee Bits
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small bowl whisk together flour and baking soda, set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add egg and mix on high speed to combine. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add vanilla extract; mix to combine.
- On low speed add the flour and mix just until combined. Add oatmeal, cherries, chocolate, and toffee pieces; mix to combine.
- Using a small cookie scoop, drop by rounded spoonfuls onto parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly browned on the edges and still be soft in center.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
adapted from Martha Stewart
Today’s post is part of 12 Weeks of Christmas Treats hosted by Brenda, Meal Planning Magic. Be sure and check out all of the fabulous treats the other 12 weeks of Christmas Treats bakers baked up for this week.
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I love to bake, especially cookies, cakes, and pies. I’ll post my adventures in the kitchen, my favorite new recipes, as well as our family favorites.
Those cookies are terrific! What a wonderful combination of ingredients.
Cheers,
Rosa
I could eat dried cherries by the handful, so I imagine they’d be that much better in a cookie like this!
All of my favorite cookie components in one recipe. It looks deliciously simple too.
So many of my favorite things in one cookie
Heath bars were my favorite growing up so I love toffee and dried cherries are a staple in my kitchen! Great cookie creation.
These are lovely!
what a fantastic sounding combination! I haven’t baked with toffee in way too long!
I would like to order 2 dozen please. Do you ship? Sound so good I would even take 4 dozen.
cookie time! i’m so excited! these look fantastic!
Loved featuring you–thank you! And now I need cookies. ASAP.
Your cookies look gorgeous and I love this combination of flavours, especially dried cherries with chocolate. Yum! Great story about why you started your blog – I also love that I post all my recipes in one place now so that I can always go back to those I liked and can direct people there if they want me to share.
I do love dried cherries. This cookie looks delicious. Does your recipe reflect the high altitude adjustments?
Thanks.
Barbara, I was going to ask you is this really a good cookie? Now that I know it’s what started your blog, I’m so in and pinning.
I still can’t believe it’s that close to Christmas! These look wonderful, and I’m so glad they inspired you to start your blog.
I’m trying these for sure!
Barbara, these look wonderful. I LOVE toffee and well, who doesn’t like chocolat chips and cherries.
Coucou Barbara, ils sont appétissant et @ croquer
Je te souhaite une agréable fin de semaine
Valérie
I love all of the flavors in these!!
I use my blog as a journal also. I cook from it all the time!
These look wonderful!
Love your variation the on the oatmeal cookie
Chewy, chocolatey and DELISH! Love them!
The cookies look wonderful.
These are my kind of cookies..loaded! These are now sealed in my vault aka cookie pin board lol LOVE!!
You’ve got my cookie loving attention! A family favorite is always worthy of trying.
Can’t wait to hear the reviews of my cookie tasting panel!
These sound amazing! I need to go stock up on some cherries and toffee ASAP so I can make them.
The cookies look delicious. I love cherries. The chewiness and crunchiness is a great combination.
What a great combination of flavors. I’ve done a white chocolate cherry cookie – but you definitely amped it up!
Ok, we really have to stop reading your site. Both of us are craving cookies.Oh, I kid you not, my tummy just growled. Mercy
cherry and chocolate in a cookie? It sound like a winner to me. What a great christmas gift these wouldbe
I always think of you and delicious cookies mum! And dried cherries? I could eat them by the bag-they’re the best dried fruit imho
xxx
So many yummy flavors and textures! A party in your mouth!
Mmm. I’m going to try these for guest this coming weekend and I’m super excited. Pinning for later! AND I love your photo board! Where on earth did you get such a cool painted piece?! Is it something real of a prop?
Thanks Melissa – It’s actually a placemat I bought at Pier 1.
PS Do you know if the dried cherries were sour cherries or sweet? I assume if they were sour they sweetened them anyhow like a craisen…
I usually buy the Dried Tart Cherries at Costco. You can get a big bag for almost the same price as a little one at the grocery store.
Okay I just asked readers about Xmas baking today in my post (being that I think 6+ weeks ahead of where ever we’re at on the calender so really, it’s Dec 1 and then some in my head!) and I am so glad you’re posting a holiday series right now. Makes me feel normal
And these cookies look to-die for! Chewy perfection!