Cherry And Hazelnut Oat Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup superfine sugar
• 1 tablespoon clear honey
• 1 cup self-rising flour, sifted
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup unsulfured dried cherries, chopped
• 2 tablespoons unsulfured dried cherries, chopped
• 1/4 cup shelled hazelnuts, toasted and chopped

Recipe

• 1 first lightly grease a cookie sheet and preheat your oven to 325 degrees f.
• 2 place your butter, sugar and honey in a small pan and cook over low heat until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved; stir occasionally during this process.
• 3 after the butter has melted and sugar has dissolved, remove from heat.
• 4 in a bowl, combine flour oats and 1/2 cup dried cherries.
• 5 add honey mixture to that bowl, and mix with a wooden spoon (please only use a wooden spoon... you will thank me) mix to form a sticky dough.
• 6 divide your dough into 9 rounds and place them on the cookie sheet.
• 7 press them into 1/2 inch thick rounds and sprinkle (evenly) with the 2 tablespoons dried cherries and the 1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts and press them into the dough.
• 8 place sheet into the oven and bake ookies for approximately 15 minutes until they are golden brown and slightly crisp on the outside.
• 9 allow them to cool on the sheet for approximately 5 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling.
• 10 your cookies should have a chewy, crumbly texture.