Black Forest Cookies
Old-world German flavor with these wonderful Black Forest Cookies. These chocolate cookies are filled with chocolate chips, pecans and dried cherries for a luscious, decadent dessert treat.
Ingredients
- 11.5 oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens cookies
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 6 oz. pkg. Traverse Bay Fruit Company dried cherries
- 1 cup coarsley chopped pecans or walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F.
- Pour 3/4 cup morsels into a small saucepan with 2 tbsp. butter.
- Heat over low heat until chocolate dissolves and melts.
- Set remaining morsels aside.
- Cool melted chocolate slightly.
- Mix sugars, butter, eggs, vanilla, melted chocolate chips and baking powder with an electric mixer.
- Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour, remaining bag of chocolate chips, dried cherries and pecans.
- Stir with a wooden spoon until combined.
- Scoop dough into balls with a small cookie scoop and place on greased cookie sheets or ones sprayed with cooking spray.
- Bake for 12 minutes or until cookies are puffed and set to the touch.
- For a firmer cookie bake for 14 minutes.
- Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes.
- Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Ocean Spray Cranberries.
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