Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal Cookies

Since starting Weight Watchers, I wanted to find a cookie that I could eat too, and these were just delicious!

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp table salt
• 3/4 cup butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 2 large egg(s)
• 2 1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal
• 1/2 cup dried cherries

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
  
  
• Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together in a small bowl; set aside.
  
  
• Place room temperature butter into bowl of a mixer and mix with a paddle attachment until smooth, or beat with an electric mixer. Slowly pour granulated sugar in an even stream into butter and mix on high speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Pour in brown sugar, mix until incorporated and then scrape mixture down from sides of bowl.
  
  
• Slowly beat in each egg one at a time until incorporated. Slowly beat in flour mixture until incorporated.
  
  
• Scrape mixture down from sides of bowl and stir in oatmeal and then dried cherries. (Note: Freeze dough at this point or continue to step 6 for baking.)
  
  
• Scoop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough onto a nonstick sheet pan, a pan lined with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat about 1 1/2 inches apart.
  
  
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until edges are set. Cool completely. Either serve cookies or stack between sheets of waxed paper in an air-tight container and freeze for up to two weeks before serving. Yields about 1 cookie per serving.