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Cherry Almond White Chocolate Cookies

Teresa Ambra
These festive and beautiful cookies are terrific for holiday baking, Christmas Cookie Exchanges or holiday parties. They're filled with candied cherries, white chocolate chips and almonds for spectacular flavor and crunchiness.
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 60
Calories 153 kcal

Equipment

  • 3 18x26" cookie sheet pans
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 spatula
  • 1 sharp knife to chop cherries

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened (2 sticks)
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar packed
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 1/2 tsp. real vanilla extract (no imitation vanilla flavoring)
  • 3 1/2 to 3 3/4 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
  • 3/4 tsp. sea salt
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 2 cups candied cherries diced
  • 2 cups white chocolate chips not vanilla chips or premiere white baking chips
  • 1 cup almonds slivered

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • Chop cherries.
  • Set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, mix the butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder and baking soda with an electric mixer until smooth.
  • Stir in flour, chopped cherries, white chocolate chips and almonds with a wooden spoon to thoroughly combine.
  • Stir thoroughly; this may take 4-5 minutes.
  • Shape dough with hands into golf ball-sized dough balls and place a couple inches apart on greased cookie sheets.
  • Bake for 13-15 minutes or until edges are light brown.
  • Rotate cookies on racks every six to eight minutes while baking.
  • Cool completely.

Notes

NOTE: There are times when I’m making a double batch of this recipe where I have to add an additional quarter to half cup of flour in order to be able to roll the dough into balls. If the dough gets too sticky. Add a little flour to the batter.
 
NOTE: Use real white chocolate chips, not vanilla chips or premiere white baking chips. Those chips don’t have any cocoa in them and are not white chocolate chips.
 
NOTE: I was baking 4 racks at a time with 24 cookies per cookie sheet. My cookies took longer to bake – about 20-24 minutes. I rotated the racks every eight minutes.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 153kcalCarbohydrates: 22gProtein: 2gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 65mgPotassium: 55mgFiber: 1gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 106IUVitamin C: 0.03mgCalcium: 31mgIron: 1mg
Keyword almonds, cherries, cherry dessert, chocolate, cookie, dessert, white chocolate chips
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