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oatmeal cherry crispies

(1 rating)
bakermom2 avatar
Recipe by
Linda Mericle
@bakermom2
Dadeville, AL

I love dried cherries and keep my eyes open for opportunities to use them. This is a wonderful recipe with the chew from oats and cherries, a crunch from the crispy rice and nuts, moistness from the coconut. Its all around delicious. Almost like eating a granola cookie.

(1 rating)
yield serving(s)
prep time 15 Min
cook time 15 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For oatmeal cherry crispies

  • 1 c
    butter, 2 cubes
  • 1/2 c
    white sugar
  • 1/2 c
    brown sugar
  • 1
    egg
  • 1 c
    flour, all purpose
  • 1 c
    whole wheat pastry flour or whole wheat (sifted for bran)
  • 1 tsp
    cream of tartar
  • 1/2 tsp
    baking sode
  • 1/2 tsp
    salt
  • 1/2 c
    oats, old fashioned
  • 1/2 c
    crispy rice cereal
  • 1/2 c
    flaked coconut
  • 1/4 c
    toasted, chopped nuts
  • 1 c
    dried cherries

How To Make oatmeal cherry crispies

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 350. Soak the dried cherries in just enough very hot water to cover and soak for 5 minutes. Then drain and blot dry. Cream together the butter and sugars until well mixed. Add the egg and mix.
  • 2
    In another bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. If using the regular whole wheat, either white or traditional, I like to sift it a bit with a mesh strainer and take out a little of the bran. But you dont have to do this. Whisk the flours, tartar, soda, salt. Mix in with the butter/sugar mixture.
  • 3
    When well combined, stir in the oats, crispy cereal, coconut and nuts with a spoon. Add the cherries. Scoop out little balls of dough, perhaps with a cookie scoop or spoon onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake about 15 minutes, rotating pan after 8 minutes and keeping an eye. When they start turning golden, remove from oven. The first batch always takes a few minutes more than the following, due to hotter oven and hot pans. These turn out crispy, nutty, sweet and a bit chewy. Yum!
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