Author Notes
These are my go-to bake sale, new mom, house warming, cookie-craving cookie. They are crispy around the edges and chewy in the middle, with enough oats to make them seem at least a tiny bit healthy. —Emily
Ingredients
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1 cup
light brown sugar
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3/4 cup
unsalted butter, softened
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1
egg
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1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
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3/4 cup
flour
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1/2 teaspoon
salt
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1/2 teaspoon
baking soda
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1/2 teaspoon
cinnamon
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3 cups
rolled or old fashioned oats
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1 cup
dried cherries
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1 cup
bittersweet chocolate chips
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter and sugar until creamy in a large bowl.
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Add egg and vanilla and beat to combine.
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Whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon in a medium bowl.
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Add dry ingredients to the wet and beat to combine.
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Stir in oats, cherries, and chocolate chips. This will take some doing, but the batter should combine to a sticky, chunky mass of oaty cookie dough.
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Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Dollop the dough in heaping tablespoons in evenly spaced mounds on the sheets.
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Wet your fingers and compress the dough into little domes. They don't need to be perfect. The dough won't expand too much as they cook, so don't worry if the cookies seem close together.
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Bake 12 - 15 minutes.
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