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    Home » Recipes » Almonds

    Chocolate Sour Cherry Cookies with Almonds

    February 3, 2014 By Sara McCleary Updated October 27, 2021 - This post may contain affiliate links

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    Chocolate sour cherry cookies from the Bourke Street Bakery cookbook. Crisp and rich chocolate cookies with a sour hit. This is also an awesome big batch recipe.

    You may recall my pork & veal recipe from a few weeks ago, made for lazy picnic in the park.  I whipped these cookies up to take along as well.  What’s a picnic without sweet indulgent treats?

    Chocolate sour cherry cookies

    Whip them up I did.  These are quick and easy with minimal fuss. I adapted the recipe from the Bourke Street Bakery Cookbook.   

    My rendition has more flour than the original.  I found that the BSB recipe way too sticky to handle in a hurry.  Their recipe is meant to be sticky, and you place the mixture in the fridge a few times during their making process. 

    chocolate sour cherry biscuits

    I didn’t have time to mess around and the addition of the extra flour worked perfectly. I also added slivered almonds to stretch the recipe to make more cookies.

    This recipe will yield you around 40 crisp rich chocolate sour cherry cookies.

    Sara xxx

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    a pile of chocolate cookies on a serving rack

    Chocolate, Sour Cherry and Almond Cookies

    Recipe Author: Sara McCleary
    Rich chocolate cookies with the tang of sour cherries and crunch of toasted almonds.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time 15 mins
    Cook Time 12 mins
    Total Time 27 mins
    Course Afternoon Tea, Cookies, Dessert, Morning Tea, Snack
    Cuisine American, Australian
    Servings 40
    Calories 118 kcal

    Ingredients

    • 240 grams dark chocolate 70%
    • 300 grams plain flour
    • 40 grams unsweetened cocoa powder
    • 1 ½ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 100 grams unsalted butter | room temperature
    • 240 grams soft dark brown sugar
    • 2 eggs
    • 85 grams dried sour cherries
    • 50 grams slivered almonds, toasted

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat over at 165 degrees C/320 degrees F. Line baking trays with baking paper.
    • In a medium bowl melt your chocolate in your preferred way. I use the microwave others prefer the double saucepan method.
    • In a large bowl sift flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt, set aside.
    • In a large bowl, either using a stand mixer or electric beaters, cream butter and brown sugar until pale and creamy. Then add eggs one at time, beating well to combine after each egg is added.
    • Add dry ingredients in three batches. Mix well after each addition. Then add melted chocolate, mix until well combined.
    • Fold through sour cherries and almonds.
    • Place one tablespoon rolled balls of mixture on the prepared baking trays. Allow room for the cookies to spread. Press ball down slightly with your fingers.
    • Bake for around 12 minutes, the cookies will have spread and have cracked on top.
    • Remove from trays to cooling rack to cool.

    Notes

    GENERAL COOK’S NOTES
    All oven temperatures are fan-forced, increase the temperature by 20°C (70°F) for convection ovens.
    All measurements are Australian tablespoons and cups. All measures are level, and cups are lightly packed unless specified.
    1 teaspoon equals 5ml
    1 tablespoon equals 20 ml (Nth America, NZ & UK use 15ml tablespoons)
    1 cup equals 250ml (Nth America use 237ml)
    4 teaspoons equal 1 tablespoon
    I use the below unless specified in my recipes.
    Herbs are fresh | Vegetables are of a medium size | Eggs are roughly 60 grams in weight (large).
     
    NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW IS A GUIDE ONLY

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1gramsCalories: 118kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 2gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 35mgFiber: 1gSugar: 7g
    Keyword chocolate cookies, sour cherries
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    1. Helen (Grab Your Fork)

      February 05, 2014 at 12:48 pm

      Adore these cookies from BSB. Nice work on the customisation with extra almonds and flour!

      Reply
    2. [email protected]

      February 03, 2014 at 9:46 pm

      As someone who got to eat them - I can say with no exaggeration... that these were freaking fantastic! Chewy and flavourful, I'm wishing I had a pile of them in front of me right now.

      Reply
    3. dina

      February 03, 2014 at 2:51 pm

      they look yummy!

      Reply
    4. [email protected]

      February 03, 2014 at 2:50 pm

      Looks good to me, with the almonds and more flour too. Sometimes you have to take the recipe into your own hands.

      Reply
    5. Annie @ The Random Foodie

      February 03, 2014 at 11:14 am

      omg this looks soooo good! feel like soft cookies right now!

      Reply
    6. Averie @ Averie Cooks

      February 03, 2014 at 10:13 am

      Gorgeous! Just saw them on FG & pinned!

      Reply
    7. The Hungry Mum

      February 03, 2014 at 8:36 am

      what a fancy pants bake! *adds to 'must make' list*.

      Reply
    8. john | heneedsfood

      February 03, 2014 at 7:08 am

      Well I can safely vouch for these delicious cookies. Indulgent indeed!

      Reply
    9. vegeTARAian

      February 03, 2014 at 6:53 am

      5 stars
      Oh Sara, these are just pure perfection! Can't wait to make them myself.

      Reply
    10. nags

      February 03, 2014 at 5:33 am

      love the cracked top! i may be baking these up soon too.

      Reply
    11. Monique

      February 03, 2014 at 4:45 am

      Yum yum yum!! These look fab!

      Reply
    12. Jacq

      February 03, 2014 at 4:03 am

      These look great! I've been eyeing them off in the BSB recipe book for a while but didn't know if I'd have the time and/or patience to wait around for them in the fridge so thanks for the adapted recipe!

      Reply
    13. Monica @ Gastromony

      February 03, 2014 at 3:21 am

      Yummo! I just can't seem to go past anything that has sour cherries in it 🙂 I really must get a copy of the Bourke St Bakery book one day 🙂 Incidentally, I was impatient this weekend and threw some cookies in the oven without the dough cooling... I ended up with one giant cookie, which wasn't a bad thing 😀

      Reply

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