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.
Try

Other flavours

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

PER COOKIE

186 kcalories, protein 2.0g, carbohydrate 23.0g, fat 11.0 g, saturated fat 6.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 14.0g, salt 0.13 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2009.

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  • 06 March 2011

    viallibabe commented on this recipe

    Very yummy and easy to do!

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  • 10 March 2011

    nattienoo rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Gorgeos, kids and hubby loved them. The trick is to put very small blobs on the tray and space them well apart. Don't flatten them, they will spread themselves. I did a white choc and cherry batch and a raisin & pecan batch. Scrummy!

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  • 12 March 2011

    tashynadarling rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I followed the recipe, however they spread out a lot and were so thin, if I didn't take them out after 5 minutes they'd burn.

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  • 16 March 2011

    BethN commented on this recipe

    Made these yesterday, one batch made 24 cookies divided between 3 baking sheets, doubled up on chocolate rather than cherries and space teaspoon sized blobs are 3 inches apart so none stuck together. Went down like a house on fire, whole batch gone by 11am.

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  • 24 March 2011

    BrowneBears commented on this recipe

    Just looked up this recipe, popped in the kitchen and made them! Amazing, really lovely cookie recipe just like the American cookies you can buy. Would highly recommend for kids to make...and eat!

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  • 24 March 2011

    BrowneBears rated this recipe

    5 stars

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  • 05 April 2011

    AndyP rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    These cookies are absolutely delicious, especially with a nice cup of tea. I prefer them without the cherries though, as I haven't been able to find the natural coloured cherries anywhere, and red glace cherries are a little sickly.

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  • 15 April 2011

    timmydog commented on this recipe

    These cookies are fab! i put some chopped diam bars on top---yum yum!

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  • 15 April 2011

    timmydog commented on this recipe

    these cookies are absolutely fab! i omitted the cherries and put extra chocolate and chopped up diam bars on top! yum yum

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  • 21 April 2011

    Sweet Pea commented on this recipe

    couldn't you use fresh cherrys or banana instead??

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  • 08 May 2011

    Matt Bottomley rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    very nice

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  • 29 May 2011

    Catvideo rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I have used this recipe a few times and frozen the mix in November to make Christmas cookies for small Christmas treats. I have tried this with lots of different flavours- chopped up chocolate orange is the best!

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  • 06 June 2011

    wendy-lou rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    It's hard to find a really good cookie recipe but these turned out really lovely. Nice and soft and so moorish. Kids and family loves them. I left out the cherries and just used chocolate chips.

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  • 06 June 2011

    wendy-lou commented on this recipe

    Also i found that rolling the dough into small balls about the size of large grapes and cooking 6 at a time on a regular size baking tray, lined with baking paper, works very well as they do get quite large while cooking so cooking 6 at a time is enough.

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  • 09 June 2011

    Julie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious!!!! Perfect first time, reminds me of Miss Millie's in the UK.

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  • 19 June 2011

    MissB commented on this recipe

    Very easy to make - fool proof recipe. My first biscuits and they were a success. I read the reviews so used walnut size dough and got 8 on a tray. Perfect but very very sweet. Eat one warm - they are delicious. When cool they are crunchy on the outside and gooey in the middle - perfect. A strong taste of white chocolcate comes through.

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  • 21 June 2011

    Anita rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    These tasted good but i expected them to be a little less crumbly than they turned out.

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  • 23 June 2011

    Yum_Yum_Tum commented on this recipe

    Made a batch of these and loved them. Easy to make followed the advice of only putting little amount on baking paper and they were perfect. My son who is picky text me to say they were so good he had to have two more. Going to add some coco powder and make some with double choc chips next.

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  • 26 June 2011

    Katy-rose commented on this recipe

    could you replace the cherries with raspberries or wouldnt this work?

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  • 13 July 2011

    Kellie-Ann commented on this recipe

    I tried this recipe today, but i swapped the filling for 100g of white chocolate and 85g of fresh chopped raspberries. They were absolutely lovely! Fantastic recipe and very easy to follow.

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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 2.0g, carbohydrate 23.0g, fat 11.0 g, saturated fat 6.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 14.0g, salt 0.13 g

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