Dried Cherries Oatmeal Cookies

 The gloomy weather in a foggy warm autumn day when all the leaves have already changed their colors to red, yellow or orange was like the definition of autumn come true. And of course the autumn all around me made me want to bake something appropriate for the mood. Something that would make the day whole. The choice was cookies. 'Definitely cookies' I thought. But not any cookies... they have to fit with taste to the autumn foggy weather outside my windows. My dream was to bake some cookies and then eat them while sitting on the bench sipping a hot tea. Mmm... so the cosy choice was Dried Cherries Oatmeal Cookies. 

Dried Cherries Oatmeal Cookies

1.5 cup dried cherries

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

70 g dark chocolate

1.5 cup oats

1/2 tsp salt

120 g unsalted butter

1 egg

1.5 tsp vanilla extract

Chop chocolate into small pieces, maximum 1/2 cm big. In a bowl mix dry ingredients: chopped chocolate, flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and cherries. 

Then add butter, egg and vanilla extract and knead the dough until all ingredients are well mixed together. In the meantime preheat the oven to 210 C. From little balls from the dough (3-4 cm wide) and press them on baking paper to form cookies. Bake for ~ 20 minutes, unless cookies become solid earlier. 

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Let them cool and you have your awesome dried cherries oatmeal cookies. Sweet from the sugar,  sour from dried cherries, spiced with cinnamon and vanilla. Gooood, gooood cookies :)