oatmeal cherry crispies
I love dried cherries and keep my eyes open for opportunities to use them. This is a wonderful recipe with the chew from oats and cherries, a crunch from the crispy rice and nuts, moistness from the coconut. Its all around delicious. Almost like eating a granola cookie.
prep time
15 Min
cook time
15 Min
method
Bake
yield
makes about 3 dozen, depending on the size you make the cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, 2 cubes
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 - egg
- 1 cup flour, all purpose
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour or whole wheat (sifted for bran)
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking sode
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup oats, old fashioned
- 1/2 cup crispy rice cereal
- 1/2 cup flaked coconut
- 1/4 cup toasted, chopped nuts
- 1 cup dried cherries
How To Make oatmeal cherry crispies
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Step 1Preheat oven to 350. Soak the dried cherries in just enough very hot water to cover and soak for 5 minutes. Then drain and blot dry. Cream together the butter and sugars until well mixed. Add the egg and mix.
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Step 2In another bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. If using the regular whole wheat, either white or traditional, I like to sift it a bit with a mesh strainer and take out a little of the bran. But you dont have to do this. Whisk the flours, tartar, soda, salt. Mix in with the butter/sugar mixture.
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Step 3When well combined, stir in the oats, crispy cereal, coconut and nuts with a spoon. Add the cherries. Scoop out little balls of dough, perhaps with a cookie scoop or spoon onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake about 15 minutes, rotating pan after 8 minutes and keeping an eye. When they start turning golden, remove from oven. The first batch always takes a few minutes more than the following, due to hotter oven and hot pans. These turn out crispy, nutty, sweet and a bit chewy. Yum!
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