Winter's Dream Cookie
 
 
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Recipe type: Cookies
Ingredients
  • • 3 cups old fashioned oats
  • • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • • ½ teaspoon ground ginger (can omit if you have allergy to ginger)
  • • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • • 1//2-teaspoon cardamom
  • • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • • 8 ounces unsalted butter (at room temperature)
  • • 1 cup almond butter (smooth or chunky)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ½ cup chopped almonds
  • 2 cups dried cherries
  • 1 bag white chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place racks so oven is divided into thirds.
  2. Line two baking sheets with parchment or silicone mats.
  3. Whisk together the oats, flour, baking soda, spices and salt in a bowl and set aside.
  4. Using a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the almond butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar together on medium speed until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one (1) at a time, and beat for a minute after each addition. Add the vanilla, turn mixer speed to low and slowly add the dry ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients only until just blended. Add the almonds, cherries, and white chocolate chips and mix for thirty seconds.
  5. Cover and refrigerate dough for two (2) hours. (Chilling the dough helps to get more evenly shaped cookies.) Once dough is chilled, scoop up with a tablespoon and roll into a ball in your hand and place on baking sheet approximately two (2) inches apart.
  6. Bake for 13-15 minutes. The cookies should be golden in color and just firm around the edges. Transfer cookies from baking sheet to wire rack to cool and firm-up as they cool. They make a great ice cream sandwich, but are terrific on their own as well.
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