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Katie's Cucina » Recipes » Dessert

Chewy Chocolate Cherry Cookies

Published: Dec 12, 2012 · Modified: Jun 5, 2025 by Katie · This post may contain affiliate links

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Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies by KatiesCucina.com #fbcookieswap #cookies #chocolate #recipe

Chewy Chocolate Cherry Cookies are sure to please anyone who craves chocolate. A twist on a classic chocolate cookie. These cookies are chewy, full of flavor, and filled with chocolate chips and dried cherries. Best of all, they are just 84 calories a cookie!

Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies by KatiesCucina.com #fbcookieswap #cookies #chocolate #recipe

Today is the big cookie-swap reveal day for the second annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap organized by the amazing Julie of The Little Kitchen and Lindsay from Love & Olive Oil! These ladies worked their butts off to ensure that food bloggers all over the world could exchange cookies. A big thank you to them for all the hard work on this much appreciated event!

This year, the ladies added an extra step to the cookie swap. Everyone who participated donated $4 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. According to Julie’s (personal) Facebook page over $2200 was raised this year and my friends at OXO matched it so that means over $4400 in total was raised by the Great Food Blogger Cookie swap!!!

Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies

I made these Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies back in August, and then made them again in September, and then when I signed up for the Cookie Swap, I remembered that I had yet to blog about these cookies I instantly knew that these would be the cookies I would send out to my three lucky recipients! Plus these cookies are only 80 calories a cookie–a plus in my book (although you would never know because they are super moist and decadent)!

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Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies by KatiesCucina.com #fbcookieswap #cookies #chocolate #recipe

Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies

Chewy Chocolate-Cherry Cookies are sure to please anyone who craves chocolate. A twist on a classic chocolate cookie. These cookies are chewy, full of flavor, and filled with chocolate chips and dried cherries. Best of all, they are just 84 calories a cookie!
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes minutes
Total Time: 22 minutes minutes
Servings: 30 cookies
Calories: 84kcal
Author: Katie

Equipment

  • KitchenAid Stand Mixer
  • Oven

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup butter softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • ⅔ cup dried cherries
  • ¼ cup semisweet mini chocolate chips
  • cooking spray

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Sift flour, then lightly fill measuring cup and level off. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt (stir).
  • In a large bowl, place sugar and butter in bowl and beat using a mixer on high until well combined. Then add vanilla and egg and beat. Place the mixer on a low speed and slowly add the flour mixture to the bowl; beat just until well combined. Then, fold in dried cherries and mini chocolate chips.
  • Spray a cookie tray with cooking spray. Then drop a tablespoon full of batter on to the cookie sheet.
  • Bake for 12 minutes at 350 degrees (or just until set). Remove the cookies from the oven and allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes. Then remove the cookies from the pan and allow to cool on a wire rack.

Notes

Adapted from Cooking Light, December 2005

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 84kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 51mg | Potassium: 41mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 167IU | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg
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Comments

  1. Julia {The Roasted Root}

    December 14, 2012 at 4:43 am

    Dried fruit adds such a nice touch to baked treats! Love everything about these cookies!

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 14, 2012 at 4:07 pm

      Thanks Julia!

  2. Rachael {SimplyFreshCooking}

    December 13, 2012 at 11:12 am

    Nice cookie swap cookie! Yummmmy!!

    Reply
  3. Becky Striepe

    December 13, 2012 at 9:07 am

    YUM! Chocolate with cherries is one of my favorite combos!

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 14, 2012 at 4:12 pm

      Mine too!

  4. Heidi @ Bits of Sunshine

    December 13, 2012 at 1:44 am

    I wish I was on the recieving end of these!!!! They look so yummy!!!!

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 14, 2012 at 4:12 pm

      I know–I wish I could send these to everyone… instead you must give them a try!

  5. Julie @ Table for Two

    December 12, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    these are so fun and look so good!! i love the dried cherries in them 🙂

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 12, 2012 at 9:57 pm

      Thanks Julie! I never baked with dried cherries until this recipe! So good *and semi-healthy, too!

  6. addie | culicurious

    December 12, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    These look very tasty, Katie! I would have loved to receive these 🙂

    Reply
  7. Suzanne

    December 12, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    What a great idea to include a recipe card for the cookies in the package you sent out. I’ll have to remember that for next year’s swap. Cookies look great – any leftovers you care to share? 😉

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 12, 2012 at 9:57 pm

      Suzanne–seriously I think I’ve made these cookies at least a handful of times in the last month! Maybe I’ll whip up some for Sunday! 🙂

  8. Carol | a cup of mascarpone

    December 12, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    What a lovely, comforting cookie! They look delicious! Would love one (or three!) with my cup of afternoon coffee right now! 🙂

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 12, 2012 at 9:56 pm

      Yes, these go GREAT with coffee!

  9. Elizabeth@ Food Ramblings

    December 12, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    They were delicious! Thanks for sending some my way 🙂

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 12, 2012 at 9:55 pm

      Elizabeth, I’m glad you enjoyed them!!!

  10. Samantha

    December 12, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    That card is SO CUTE! I love chocolate covered cherries so I think these cookies are right up my alley.

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 12, 2012 at 9:56 pm

      Seriously Sam, if you love chocolate covered cherries then you would most definitely LOVE these!

  11. icakepops

    December 12, 2012 at 11:23 am

    They look awesome! And great job on the cookie swap!

    Reply
  12. Katrina @ In Katrina's Kitchen

    December 12, 2012 at 8:34 am

    These are perfectly puffy!!!

    Reply
    • Katie

      December 12, 2012 at 11:07 am

      Thanks Katrina! You would never know that these are low in calorie from the taste of them!

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