pistachio and cranberry chocolate cookies

By mitzzy

After a few flops, I had success. I love the cherry flavor with chocolate and the crunch of the pistachios. Plus, I'm always happy to have some dried cherries left over afterward. Is there a better dried fruit? If you are in a pinch you could use dried cranberries, too.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup unsalted butter
• 2/3 cup dark brown sugar
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 2 T light corn syrup
• 1 T cider vinegar or white vinegar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 T vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 2 cups dried cherries
• 1 cup pistachios, shelled
• 2 cups mini semi sweet chocolate chips

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together butter, sugars, corn syrup and vinegar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In a medium bowl, whisk together salt, baking powder, baking soda and flour. Add to butter mixture and mix. Stir in cherries, pistachios and chocolate chips.


Drop cookie dough by tablespoonful onto baking sheet. Bake cookies for 10 minutes, then remove them from the oven and let them cool on the sheets for 5 minutes before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.