Hearty Oatmeal Pistachio Cookies with Cherries & White Chocolate
These Hearty Oatmeal Pistachio Cookies with Cherries & White Chocolate are thick, chewy, and loaded with delicious goodies! Made with wholesome oats, tart dried cherries, crunchy pistachios, and sweet white chocolate chips, they're perfect for a nutritious snack or indulgent treat. Customize with your favorite mix-ins and enjoy with a cup of coffee or hot cocoa!
Servings: 24 medium-sized cookies
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Cost: $10
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour can also make them healthier with whole wheat white flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ¼ teaspoon orange extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups rolled oats
- 1 cup dried cherries raisins, dates or dried cranberries can be used as well
- ½ cup chopped pistachios pecans or walnuts can be used as well
- optional: ½ cup white chocolate chips chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, peanut butter chips or milk chocolate chips can be used as well
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Combine flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice/cinnamon, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Cream butter and both sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and both extracts. Gradually mix in flour mixture until incorporated. Mix in oats, dried fruit, nuts and chocolate chips until thoroughly combined.
- Using a cookie scoop or spoon, drop rounded scoops or teaspoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the edges are golden, 10-12 minutes for small cookies, 12-14 minutes for medium-sized cookies and 15-18 for large ¼ cup cookies. Make sure cookies are cooked on the top and not wet, but make sure not to overbake as well.
- Allow the cookies to cool briefly on the baking sheets before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. So good!
Notes
Hearty Oatmeal Pistachio Cookies with Cherries & White Chocolate Tips
- Once the cookies are set on the tops, they are baked. If the tops are still wet, they aren't done baking. At the same time, make sure not to overbake cookies, for hearty dense, yet chewy oatmeal cookies, otherwise the cookies could become dry.
- Take care to measure your flour correctly. Too much flour can result in a hard, dense cookie that will not spread at all and will not be chewy whatsoever. More crumbly, dry and they could take longer to bake.
- Leave space between cookies when baking, but know the cookies will not spread too much, but they will definitely expand. You are adding in some yummy goodies, so those will help keep these thick and no flat cookies.
- If you want flatter cookies, you can smoosh these down some, and take some of the baking time off you timer, or you can add 1 & 1/3 cups of oats instead of 1 & 1/2 cups of oats. Don't add more oats though, unless you're adjusting your flour as well.
- Add more goodies on top of your cookies before or after they've baked. I prefer to add the white chocolate chips on top after the cookies are baked so they don't brown on top.