I know that as summer rolls around, people start choosing frozen treats over baked goods, but I wholeheartedly believe that even during the summer, nothing can beat homemade cookies.
Butterscotch-Chip on the left and Chocolate Cherry on the right
These cookies are for when you just need a good, chewy cookie. The cookies that I have to share with you today are not soft, airy cake cookies, but rather chewy, textured oatmeal cookies. That’s why they’re best served warm with a glass of milk!
Yummy Fillings
Carmely sugar and butter mixture
Sugar mixture plus flour mixture
Mixed again after addition of egg and vanilla
Although my mom has always had a soft spot for oatmeal raisin cookies, to be honest, I’ve never been a big fan. I always felt like I was getting ripped off by finding yucky raisins instead of chocolate chips in my cookies. Unlike raisins, tangy sour cherries, on the other hand, are delicious. Even still, everything is better with chocolate chips.
Two bowls of basic oatmeal cookie dough
Butterscotch and Chocolate Chips added
Dried Sour Cherries and Chocolate Chips added
Butterscotch-Chip on the left and Chocolate Cherry on the right
That’s why I first decided to make cherry chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. But Goose hates cherries (or any fruit for that matter) and whenever I bake, I like to be able to share the goodies with him. So I decided to also make chocolate chip butterscotch cookies, so that he could have some too. Instead of making two entirely different cookies, I wanted to make a basic dough that could suit us both. Hence, these super-adaptable oatmeal cookies were the perfect fix. Simply divide the batter into two (or more) bowls and add whatever mix-ins you want.
Butterscotch-Chip cookies ready to bake
Chocolate-Cherry cookies ready to bake
Chocolate-Cherry Cookies (for me)
Butterscotch-Chip Cookies (for Goose)
Chocolate-Cherry and Butterscotch-Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Adapted From Cooking Light
Serves 60
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup whole-wheat flour
- 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 cup dried cherries
- 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
- 2/3 cup butterscotch chips
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° and line your baking trays with parchment paper.
- Combine flours, oats, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl and whisk until combined.
- Melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat, then remove from heat and stir in the brown sugar until smooth.
- Add sugar mixture to flour mixture and beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended. Then add the vanilla and eggs and beat until combined.
- Divide the dough among two bowls and add cherries and one cup of the chocolate chips to one bowl. Add butterscotch chips and the remaining chocolate chips to the other bowl.
- Drop tablespoons of the dough two inches apart onto the baking trays from the first step.
- Bake at 350° for 12 minutes. Cool on pans 3 minutes or until almost firm. Remove cookies from pans; cool on wire racks. Repeat until you have baked all of the cookies.
Other possible flavor variations…the sky’s the limit!
- Pistachio Ginger
- Salted Caramel
- Apple Pie (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and freeze dried apples)
- Peanut butter
- Pumpkin Pie (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and pumpkin puree)
- Maple Pecan
- Rocky Road (mini marshmallows, walnuts, and chocolate chips)
- Fluffernutter (peanut butter chips and marshmallow fluff)