Soft & Chewy Cherry Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans
Giant cherry oatmeal cookies that are so soft and chewy, full of bits of fresh cherry, warming cinnamon and crunchy toasted pecans.
Servings 15
Calories 261kcal
Equipment
- 2 parchment lined baking sheets
Ingredients
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1.25 cups flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup cherries cut into halves and slices
- 0.5 cups chopped roasted pecans
- 1 cup butter softened to room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 0.25 cups maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or use extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 C / 360 F.
- Slice half the cherries into thin slices, and the other half down the middle into halves.
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Mix in the eggs, maple syrup, vanilla and cinnamon.
- Mix in the cherries and pecans.
- In another bowl mix the oats with the flour, salt and baking soda until evenly combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until even.
- Use a half cup measure, ice cream scoop or other tool to spoon out roughly 15 cookies onto the baking sheets, with at least 3 cm / 1 inch between each cookie.
- Bake in preheated oven for 14 minutes.
- Rest for 10 minutes. The cookies will still be soft in the middle and need the resting time to fully set.