Rum Cherry + Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies

I feel like I should apologize because I know your screens are being flooded with dozens upon dozens of cookie recipes… but really, life could be worse. So how about one more?! However I should note that these aren’t you typical holiday cookie. These are cookies that you should probably keep to yourself and hide from your children, nieces, nephews or those neighbor kids. Definitely not the neighbor kids. These are a no-need-to-share-keep’em-all-to-your-self kind of cookie. My favorite kind.

Ps. boozy cookies rule.

I’m happy to be one of six bloggers that is teaming up with the Ohio Poultry Association in the Take a Bite of My State Cookie EGGs-change. The idea is to develop a cookie that represents in some way the state we are from and contains the glorious, delicious and extremely important, egg. How fun!

To say I’m an egg fanatic is an understatement. For many years, eggs were just eggs… until I had a taste of my first farm-fresh egg. The color of a farm egg is stunning; almost a deep orange and the yolks are silky and rich. But besides their exceptional nutritional value, eggs will amplify the richness, tenderness and adds moisture so your cookies so they remain moist and have a less of a chance at becoming stale. Truth: I always have two dozen eggs in my fridge.

…and four boxes of butter, but that’s a different story.

Now let’s talk about these cookies, shall we? Living in Michigan, I just knew I had to go the cherry route. Traverse City, Michigan has claimed itself the “cherry capitol of the world” and that’s exactly the place where my dried cherries are from. Neat-o.

So there I was perusing through my cookie section on this here site-of-mine and I found this oldie-but-goodie recipe for toasted pecan and oatmeal rum raisin cookies {totally to die for} that I had made a few years back and it sparked an idea. I knew I had some rum in my pantry {uhhh who doesn’t?} so I decided to give the dried cherries a nice little soak, mix them in to a pretty basic cookie dough and then of course I added both white and dark chocolate chunks for an overall dreamy, boozy, chocolaty cookie.

Think drunken cordial cherries in cookie form. Heaven.

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