From a recipe on the BBC Good Food website, but using dried cherries instead of glacé cherries which are less sweet and, I think, work better with chocolate.
200 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
85 g light muscovado sugar
85 g golden caster sugar
1 egg
225 g self-raising flour
50g plain chocolate, 50-70% cocoa, roughly chopped
50g white chocolate, roughly chopped
85g dried cherries (ornatural colour glacé cherried) roughly chopped
Heat oven to 190 °C/fan 170 °C/Gas Mark 5.
Makes about 40 biscuits of roughly 5 cm diameter
Line 2 baking trays with baking paper. (I make my biscuits small, so I use the two trays twice, waiting until the tray is cool before adding the second batch ).
Beat the butter, sugars and egg until smooth, then mix in the flour, chocolates and cherry pieces and a little salt if required (I use no salt). Spoon nuggets of the mixture on to non-stick baking sheets, making sure sure they are spaced well apart as the cookies grow quite a bit during baking. (Raw dough can be frozen.)
Bake for 12-14 mins until just golden, but still quite pale and soft in the middle. If baking from frozen, give them a few mins more. Cool on the baking trays for 5 mins, then move to a wire rack to complete cooling.
2 Comments
Delicious indeed. I’m a bit surprised to find white chocolate with the cherries, but now I think of it, it sounds really good!
Dark chocolate too, so you could omit the white chocolate and double up the dark.