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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Chockablock Cookies


Teetering on the edge of healthy, these little gems are "chocked" full of goodness, hence the name. At first I thought the amount of molasses would overpower the recipe, but that was not the case. In fact, it actually took kind of a back seat to everything else and there was no one prominent ingredient. Each bite tickled my tongue in a different way.....one minute I was tasting a bit of creamy bittersweet chocolate, the next I got the tang from the dried cranberries.......oh, wait! Was that coconut in there?? Walnuts?? What next??? I think these should have been named Full of Surprises Cookies!

My add-in choices were: golden raisins, dried tart cherries, dried cranberries, toasted walnuts, coconut, regular oats, steel-cut oats, and bittersweet chocolate pieces.

6 comments:

  1. I didn't add dried fruit to mine, and I was afraid that the chocolate/molasses combo wouldn't be very good, so I went a totally different direction.

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  2. These cookies were excellent. I went with dates, walnuts, oats, coconut and burgandy chocolate chunks. Delish.

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  3. I tried diced dried pineapple, which was also good. I think these cookies could be made 100 different ways and be equally good and surprising.

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  4. I LOVE your add ins! Such a great variety!

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  5. i loved the molasses in these...and all the little flavor surprises!

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