Whole Foods Chocolate Chip Dried Cherry Cookie
Posted by Anna on 28 Aug 2005 at 01:37 pm | Tagged as: Wholesome Cookies
Since I’m in crazy-spending mode this week, I decided to go ahead and purchase all the ingredients I’d need to make the Whole Foods Chocolate Chip Dried Cherry Cookies. After a quick buzz through the Health Food section of Randall’s, I now own a bag of organic cane sugar, a box of whole wheat pastry flour and some sort of “Save the Animals” type dark chocolate which I’ve already used and which I have to admit, was pretty darn good. I also splurged and bought actual dried bing cherries instead of the cheaper cherry flavored Craisins. The dried bings have a nice soft texture, but they’re not as good as dried sour cherries or even cherry flavored Craisins.
As for the cookies, they were good, but not as good as other chocolate chip cherry cookies. The Whole Foods cookies tasted less sweet than most chocolate chip cookies and were soft and cake-like. I didn’t like how the chunky chocolate, pecans and cherries were suspended in soft cake and would have preferred a denser, crumblier texture. Glad I only made a half batch, but am kicking myself for not having made Julie Moore’s cookies from allrecipes.com.
For Julie’s cookie, which as you can see has many high reviews, I like to sub chocolate chips for the white chips and add cherries. The allrecipes recipe makes a dense, crumbly, puffy but not cakey cookie which I would go and make right now if I weren’t supposed to be cleaning and packing.
Here’s the Whole Foods recipe. It was a good cookie, but not quite what I was expecting.
Chocolate Chip Dried Cherry Cookies
1 stick organic unsalted butter — softened
2/3 cup organic cane sugar — packed
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sifted organic unbleached white flour
1/4 cup sifted organic whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup dried cherries — roughly chopped
1 cup pecans — roughly chopped
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cream together butter and sugar, beating until light. Add vanilla and eggs. Continue to beat well. Sift together both flours, salt and baking soda, and add to butter mixture, beating again. Stir in chocolate chips, dried cherries and pecans. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets that have been lined with parchment paper and sprayed with canola or olive oil spray. Bake cookies 15 to 20 minutes or until golden. Remove to wire racks to cool
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on 28 Aug 2005 at 5:20 pm 1.Joe said …
Thanks for the cookie review! I’ve had that chocolate before and it is pretty good! I like it better just in bar form though.
on 28 Aug 2005 at 6:57 pm 2.Nic said …
I agree with you on the dried bings. Sour cherries are much better. I actually had no idea that there were cherry flavored craisins, but this recipe from the Oceanspray website sounds great: http://www.oceanspray.com/Recipes/recipe/recipe.aspx?ID=96Maybe I’ll have to track some down.
on 28 Aug 2005 at 8:38 pm 3.Anna said …
Nic, those black forest cookies look good. For some reason, I’ve been craving the chocolate & fruit combo.I’ll be interested to hear what you think of cherry flavored craisins. I buy them because they taste good and are super cheap — about $1.50 a bag, compared to $4.00 for dried sour cherries.Another product I spotted today is called “Confused Raisins”. Confused raisins looks like regular raisins, but are flavored with orange or cherry essence.
on 29 Aug 2005 at 10:49 am 4.Jen said …
I use those Cherry Flavored Craisins all the time instead of dried cherries. I really think they taste like dried cherries. Good to know I’m not alone.
on 30 Aug 2005 at 7:34 pm 5.s'kat said …
I’m so glad you tried that chocolate! I really like the Tiger Bar (dark chocolate with espresso beans), and am anxious to try the Bat Bar (dark chocolate with cocoa nibs). The Endangered Species chocolate bars have been, ironically, sold out at my store for some time, as well as on line.Use some of that whole wheat flour to make Joe’s banana-walnut muffins!
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