These cookies are awesome.
You must make them.
If you like oatmeal, cinnamon, chocolate, cherry dipped cones from DQ, or basically anything with sugar, then these are going to be your new go-to cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp all spice
- 1 tsp cocoa
- 1 1/2 cups whole oats
- 1 1/2 cups Cherry flavored baking morsels
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup room temp butter (unsalted)
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup white sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In medium bowl sit flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, all spice and cocoa. In your mixer cream on medium speed, add shortening, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, and vanilla. Add in eggs one at a time. Mix on medium high for 1-2 minutes and make sure ingredients are well combined.
- Turn mixer to low and add flour ingredients to wet mixture and mix until just combined. Remove bowl from mixer. Add in oats and cherry morsels and finish mixing together by hand.
- These cookies work best using silpat or parchment paper on your baking sheet. I made each cookie about 2 tablespoons big and placed each spoonful about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes and then place hot cookies on a cooling rack.
A couple of tips with this cookie:
There is a big difference in texture in between cooking them for 9 minutes or for 11 minutes. Make sure you are keeping an eye on them starting at eight minutes! I remove my cookies when they appeared almost under done. The center is still a bit glossy in appearance. The cookies should be fully cooked, but a very soft and delicate center is the best way to eat these.
You can easily substitute chocolate chips for the cherry morsels. These cookies actually derived from my Oatmeal Cranberry Chocolate Spice Cookie. This is probably the best base recipe for an Oatmeal Raisin cookie I have ever encountered. I will be blogging that soon!
I have been testing the recipe on my neighbors for the last week, and have gotten pretty darn good positive feedback. Most people want more. The combination of a subtle sweet cherry morsel and the brown sugar and cinnamon along with a soft and chewy texture just puts this cookie over the top.
In honor of the upcoming July 4th celebrations, I made a little revision to the recipe.
I removed 1/2 of the cherry morsels and then coarsely chopped up 1/4 cup of white chocolate and 1/4 cup of blue tinted baking chips.
These are fun and patriotic and would be the perfect addition to any celebration, but just know this.
They are SWEET! So sweet. Like, give you a toothache sweet. Unless you have really good teeth. Then you are fine.
I buy my Cherry Morsels at Walmart in the fall for $3 a bag and usually stock up. You can also buy them on Amazon, but I find these to be a bit expensive. If you are a baker or retailer, feel free to leave a link to anywhere that offers a better deal! 
LOVE this idea Amanda! – and the red white and blue ones are perfect!
Thank you!
Yes. Yes to everything in this cookie. Yes to you. Yes I am hungry.
Oat meal cookies are my favorite, and now I’m craving them. These look exquisite!
These sound so delightful! Love this idea!
These look delish! And so beautiful in your photos. Has anyone ever told you that you are a cherry morsel genius? Because you are!
It’s the perfect season for cherries and of course, cherry oatmeal cookies!!
Oh are these fun cookies!! I LOVE the dark background too
I love the red white and blue version of these! They are beautiful and sound like they taste amazing! Great photos too Amanda! I could learn a thing or two from you!!!!
I love oatmeal cookies!
I wish I knew what cherry flavour baking morsels are so I could get my butt in the kitchen right now and make these at midnight, lol, but no such thing over this side of the pond. Do you think I could substitute with glace cherries chopped up? I hope so!
First of, you take AMAZING pics. I feel I could almost reach out and grab a cookie! I love love love oatmeal cookies. I will be trying these this week!
Where do you get blue tinted baking chips?!
Thank you! I got them at Michaels!
Ah! My fav cake supplies store. I’ll check them out there. Thanks!!
I love oatmeal cookies. The addition of the cherry baking morsels is such a great combination with the oatmeal. I bet the flavor is outstanding. I must try! My kids would love these!
These look incredible! I love using the dye on the white chocolate to make them 4th of July festive! I don’t think I’ve ever tried cherry morsels, looks like I need to!
Could you share the name and location of the font that you use on your header “i am baker”? It’s the handwritten one that you use on your photos, etc…….It looks just like my handwriting and I’m very curious!! Thank you so much, Catherine
Wow, you sure have great handwriting!
http://www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/freescrapbookfonts/susies-hand/ Kevin and Amanda are so great, their site is full of such wonderful fonts and creations!