Gooey chocolate cherry cookies

Gooey chocolate cherry cookies

If you like American-style cookies, you’ll love these pale, chewy delights. Plus, they can be baked from frozen

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 20 large cookies

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 14 mins

Freezable

Method

  1. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Beat the butter, sugars and egg until smooth, then mix in the flour, chocolates and cherry pieces and ½ tsp salt. Spoon onto non-stick baking sheets in large rough blobs - you'll get 20 out of this mix. Make sure they are well spaced as the cookies grow substantially as they bake. The raw dough can be frozen.
  2. Bake for 12-14 mins until just golden, but still quite pale and soft in the middle. If baking from frozen, give them a few mins more. Cool on the sheets for 5 mins, then lift onto racks with a fish slice and leave to cool completely.
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Other flavours

Try swapping the cherries for sour cherries, nuts or even more chocolate.

PER COOKIE

186 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 23g, fat 11 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 1g, sugar 14g, salt 0.13 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2009.

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  • 11 March 2009

    scottish990 commented on this recipe

    all the family loved these tasty and very quick to make cookies. i had ran out of cherries and used some dried cranberries that i had and they were just as lovely. i will use this again and again.

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    12 March 2009

    Efi rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Absolutely lovely, gooey, melt in the mouth cookies. Gorgeous and in my opinion, deserve the full 5 star treatment.

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  • 15 March 2009

    sally rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Very yummy!

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  • 18 March 2009

    helenlilly rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Made these for red nose day. Gorgeous! Tip - Make the blobs about the size of a dessert spoon - some of mine ended up the size of a plate! I used extra chocolate instead of cherries.

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  • 20 March 2009

    jackie rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Well i tryed !!! what a disaster, they all went into one i cut them with a pastry cutter into nice little circles which looked much better, then i tryed to get them off the baking sheet and they all broke into bits ,they do taste nice but not worth all the work and washing up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • 01 April 2009

    Erica rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    These are so good. As its lent, i replaced the chocolate and cherries with sultanas and macadamia nuts and they are so nice! I've been looking for a good cookie recipe for ages - some other ones can turn out quite cake-like, but these ones were spot on - crispy on the outside, wonderfully gooey on the inside. yum yum yum.

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  • 02 April 2009

    Jayne commented on this recipe

    These are brilliant. Best cookie recipe I've ever used. Couldn't buy better in the shops!

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  • 12 April 2009

    Steph & Matt rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    yum, yum, yummy ! This were delicious i can't wait to make them again !!

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  • 27 April 2009

    miniminx commented on this recipe

    gorgeous - what a great cookie recipe. like was pointed out before, not at all cakey like other 'american-style' cookie recipes. endless variations: i tried lemon and white chocolate, but could do cranberry and dark chocolate; orange and jumbo raisins (use the juice and zest); apricot and walnut; apple and cinnamon.............yum!

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  • 04 May 2009

    hollie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    i really liked making these cookies, but very easy to over cook, although i completely melted the butter so that may have affected the cooking time. i added extra white chocolate instead of cherries, well nice ;)

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  • Binder photo Deb

    05 May 2009

    Deb rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Very easy to make. I swapped the white chocolate for crushed brazil nuts and will work well. Yum!

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  • 05 May 2009

    Jo Boardman commented on this recipe

    This is the best cookie recipe I have tried so far... and I have tried a few. Definitely my sort of cooking, very easy and the end result is delicious.

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  • 12 May 2009

    hollie commented on this recipe

    today i replaced the chocolate and cherries with 4 chunks of crystallized ginger ground up and a tablespoon of ginger powder, they are gorgeous :)

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  • 21 May 2009

    spoonlets rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Nice biscuits but disappointing on the chewy-american style cookie front, i purposefully kept an eye to make sure that they weren't over cooked. Won't be trying these again.

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  • 23 May 2009

    Gwen Wallace commented on this recipe

    these were a disaster did not turn out as cookies but a big blob in the tin burnt I do not think i will try these again don't know what I was doing wrong.

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  • Binder photo Jo

    25 May 2009

    Jo rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    They tasted perfect-just what I'd hoped! They were soft, chewy, sugary, melt-in-the mouth etc... BUT! They fell apart so easily I ended up with a tray full of cookie peices rather than nice neat circles, however definitely worth it because of the taste. I also changed it a bit by substituting 50g of flour for 50g of cocoa and the result was a rich dark colour.

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  • 26 May 2009

    kasia rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    It's really REALLY difficult not to pick on raw batter... :)

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  • 26 May 2009

    Esme26 commented on this recipe

    All my friends loved these cookies. They did spread a lot during baking and we ended up eating half a cookie each time as they were so large. Could perhaps make twice as many small ones!

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  • 27 May 2009

    beckyg9988 rated this recipe

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  • 25 June 2009

    Babs rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I always use not stick baking parchment for cookies & traybakes as even my "non stick" cookware doesn't work even when greased and floured.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 20 large cookies

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 14 mins

Freezable

Ingredients

  • 200g unsalted butter , at room temperature
  • 85g light muscovado sugar
  • 85g golden caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 225g self-raising flour
  • 50g plain chocolate , 50-70% cocoa, roughly chopped
  • 50g white chocolate , roughly chopped
  • 85g natural colour glacé cherries , roughly chopped
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PER COOKIE

186 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 23g, fat 11 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 1g, sugar 14g, salt 0.13 g

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