Recipe: Cherry-Oat Cookies (using whole wheat flour, flax seed meal, and dried cherries)

Cherry-Oat Cookies

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup flax seed meal
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats, uncooked
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups dried tart cherries
3/4 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips

Mix together all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, flax seed meal, baking powder, salt and oats. Set aside.

Mix butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Add flour mixture to butter mixture; mix well. Stir in dried cherries and chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet (or line cookie sheets with parchment baking paper).

Bake in a preheated 350F oven 9 to 11 minutes, or until golden brown. Let stand 1 minute, then transfer cookies to wire baking racks to cool.

Makes approximately 48 cookies.
Source: Cherry Marketing Institute