Bite Size Oatmeal Cookies

I found this recipe in the February Taste of Home magazine for Chewy Good Oatmeal Cookies and since it never stops snowing here, baking seems like a good idea so I decided to give them a whirl.  I was very pleased with the results.  My cute little bunny plate was a recent purchase at the Pottery Barn outlet, I now wish I had picked up a couple more.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2-1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1-1/3 cups dried cherries
• 1 cup white baking chips
• 1 cup (4 ounces) chopped macadamia nuts

Directions

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, honey and vanilla. In another bowl, mix the oats, flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in the remaining ingredients.
• Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on pan for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 3-1/2 dozen. (copied from Taste of Home website)

I made a batch a couple of days ago using what I had in the house for the yum yums.  I didn't have white chocolate chips (don't care for white chocolate myself) so I used semi sweet chocolate chips, no macadamia nuts either so I used toasted chopped pecans.  I did however have beautiful Michigan dried cherries which went wonderfully with the chocolate and pecans.  They were a thumbs up with me but my husband didn't care for the cherries, he's such an haute cuisine expert ya know (rolling my eyes at this point in the story).  

This morning I decided to make a batch just using the semi sweet chips and they were great too, but personally I loved the tartness of the cherries.  

I made each cookie just a two bite size using a scoop that I believe is a 1/3oz, a little smaller than a half a dollar coin.  This recipe made 100 cookies and I did have to cut bake on the baking time to 8 minutes because of the mini size.

Most of these will be going to our local veterans home tomorrow for some of the guys to enjoy but I'll keep a few in the cookie jar too.

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