Here’s a fun game to play:
Grab a chef. Any chef will do.
Ask that chef what their favorite Oatmeal Cookie recipe is. I’ll bet you my favorite slippers (not that you would want those) that their favorite recipe for Oatmeal Cookies is the recipe right there on the Quaker Oats can.
I know… too easy right? Take the easy. Accept the easy. Some things are complicated. Other things are as simple as the Oatmeal Cookie recipe that I’ve been making since I was old enough to reach the counter.
Embrace the good, then add cherries and chocolate.
Because I simply can’t help myself, I jazzed these beauties up a bit with dried cherries and white chocolate chips. Use any combination of dried fruit and chocolate you like. The base recipe, with brown sugar and old fashioned oats is gorgeous enough with or without the jazz. Keep in mind that chocolate does make everything better. Fact.
Oatmeal Cherry White Chocolate Cookies
oooooh Quaker. You’ve done it again.
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Lauren Ver Hage
So I’m sitting at home and my dad requests a simple boring old oatmeal cookie and I think “cool, let’s bake something!!!” But, c’mon – I know better than to just simply make a plain oatmeal cookie. I pulled up your blog, having already made a bunch of your recipes before and think, “now Joy has got to have something here that I can use to kick a plain old oatmeal cookie in the pants.” And I was right! I just whipped up a batch of these and HOLY MOLY are they to die for. I subbed out half the butter with Greek yogurt and added mini chocolate chips. Phenomenal! Thanks for yet another great recipe Joy!!!
<3 a longtime follower & recent oatmeal cookie convert
rae
HI,
Seeing that you are a baker, I thought you may know the answer to this question. What happens if I sub butter for coconut oil?? My 4yr old & husband consumes cookies at an unhealthy rate. Please help:)
joythebaker
I really don’t know, but I think Google will be helpful!
Leslie
This is my first time to your blog, and I was lead here while looking for a really good white chocolate-cherry oatmeal cookie recipe…Wha-laa!! This one looks perfect, and in fact I just made the cookie dough! It’s chillin in the fridge now. I chopped large chunks of the white chocolate and added some toasted almonds in addition to the cherries for a really good cookie “glob” factor! ;)
I can’t wait to taste these cookies and blog about them, too. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe.
Blessings,
Leslie
Joy
I brought half the batch to a bachelorette weekend and sent the other half with my husband for a guys’ camping trip. Everyone went crazy over these! Thanks Joy!
Shana
FABULOUS COOKIES! I made a test batch for a cookie swap I have coming up and they are delish. The only thing I do differently (as with all my cookie recipes) is go a little heavier on the chocolate chips and cherries in this case. Thank you so much, these are sure to be added to my regular holiday baking!
eliz
These are studded perfection. They come out as little nibbles that everyone loves and people disguise as healthy due to the cherries. Ah, Joy you are the master of deception and the queen of oh so tempting oatmeal cookies.
Thanks for another winner!
Stephanie
I’ve only just discovered your website and I’m loving it! I started off by making these oatmeal cookies, and they came out pretty nice. But, since I’m European and didn’t grow up with wonderful things like oatmeal cookies (I know, we’re far behind ;-)) I’m not quite sure if they should be chewy or crispy. Mine were somewhere in between. And when you say “rounded tablespoonfuls” should I drop balls of dough onto the sheet or do I make a flat cookie with rounded edges?
Ne-Ne
OK you my friend are a lifesaver. In my quest to LIVE better in 2011 (which by the way does not mean more diet and exercise, it just means be happy as much as un-humanly possible) the decision was made to have dessert every day. EVERY DAY. And in looking up random recipes i decided i wanted oatmeal raisin cookies, but not the hard crunchy should be biscotti kind. The kind that make you slide into the cushions of your couch, put your feet up and watch Grey’s Anatomy kind. And all along you had these gems. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!
my tummy thanks you as well. :)
Michele
Bought white chocolate and dried cherries to add to a cookie, but couldn’t decide on the base. Thank you for the nudge in the direction my favorite oatmeal recipe.
Karen
Just made these for a party and they were delish!! I added 1 cup chopped pecans to it. Yummy!
heidi W
These were great! The only change I made was using light brown sugar instead of dark. I doubled the recipe and used the surplus to make Ice cream sandwiches! I froze a couple dozen and then put a scoop of pistachio ice cream between two cookies and then froze them for a few hours before serving. Everyone LOVED them!
Hannah @ greenoats&jam
I made these a month ago and they were fantastic! thank you so much, joy! :D
Bake-A-Holic
How funny, I love the Quaker Oatmeal cookie recipe too! And today I was going to take that recipe and add cherries and white chocolate. I thought I would browse around and see if anyone else was making some and you beat me to the punch. I’m glad they’re tasty. I’ll be making them to take up camping this week.
Megan
Made these for my mom to take somewhere with semisweet chocolate. They were a big hit. Oddly though some of the cookies spread out and others remained similar in size to your pictures?
Jannett
Great photos… Love your blog… I have put these on my list to try… :)
Shami
Wow… these look delicious. I love cherries and chocolate, as well as oatmeal cookies, and I think I’m going to have to give these a try with either milk chocolate or white chocolate. Thank you for the fantastic recipe variation… can’t wait to sink my teeth into them!
Colleen
Another awesome bit of goodness. Thanks for satisfying another pregnancy craving!
Nikki
These are so DELICIOUS! I subbed dark chocolate for the white. However, I doubled the recipe b/c I was afraid I wouldn’t have enough and I haven’t finished baking but I am already up to 50 cookies!!! I would suggest you write the amount of servings in the recipe :)
hannah Brown
ABSOLUTLEY FABULOUS!!!
Lindsey
We made these for Christmas, and they were a big hit! Thanks for the recipe! I put it on my blog. http://lindseyis.blogspot.com/2009/12/oatmeal-cherry-white-chocolate-cookies.html
Marlee
I am making these right now!!
YUM. Thanks Joy!
Shirley
These are just great! question though- did you chop your cherries or just put them in whole. I did mine whole and feel like a couple cookies got jipped of the cherries. but they are still wonderful!
Ed the Baker
A friend recently introduced me to your website & I LUV LUV LUV it! Thank You!
Going to make these oatmeal cookies this weekend but wanted to ask if I can freeze the cookie dough? Love baking but never manage to finish everything so very interested in recipes I can freeze. Any suggestions?
Alice - Hidden Object
Thanks for the recipe, joythebaker. Pics look really tasty =) I will certainly give it a try.
Angie @ Many Little Blessings
I posted not too long about the Quaker Oat recipe. That *is* the best! I’m definitely going to have to try your cherries & white chocolate trick with them. That sounds divine!
Kelsey
beautiful pictures + lovely lovely lovely recipes!!!!!!
Martha
Sometimes starting simple really is best! Of course the addition of dried cherries and white chocolate transforms the simple into sophisticated with ease.
Thanks for such a great recipe. I love oatmeal cookies and am always on the lookout for great oatmeal cookie variations.
Luciole
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful recipe! Made these about a week ago… right now we have a friend of ours living with us while he finds an apartment and a good job. He said they were phenomenal.
The best part? He cooks for a living. :)
(And it’s even better because I can now bribe him into making me his awesome fennel mashed potatoes. So once again… thank you very, very much!)
linsee
cool cookies!
Brittany Lauren
Holy macoroni these cookies are super delightful! Thank you fot the recipe. I did tweek it a bit by adding dried cranberries and some almond extract and they came out so tasty and soft. I sent these to work with my boyfriend to give to some of the ladies in his office and they all emailed me to tell me that they loved them. This recipe does make alot of cookies (YAY!) so it is tempting to be selfish and just eat them all (guilty and proud of it!). Anywho thank you Joy I love your blog. You always seem to read my mind and know exactly what Im craving. Next Im onto some of these polenta recipes. Have a great day!
ella
Just made these…they are BEAUTIFUL but dangerously abundant and extremely tempting. you have been warned!
greenbean
just made the cookies this morning and they were a huge success! thanks joy!
Leigh
THANK YOU for posting this. I tend to buy no name brand, organic oats and so have never had this perfect recipe at my disposal…and it is perfect! I upped the “healthy” (haha) by including a half cup of flax meal to the batter. It added a subtle nutty taste.
Your blog is wonderful, thank you for your amazing photos that entice me to get into the kitchen myself!
Kristen
I made the oatmeal box recipe this morning. Soooo good with semisweet chips!
Vive
I made these today for a brunch/house renovation party, and people went WILD for them! I used dried cranberries and dark chocolate chips, and that seems to have hit the spot, because every one of them was eaten and folks were raving. So simply, and thus so perfect. I love your blog, by the way.
Hulagirl
Made these last night and teenager took some to school. Just got a text from him and he wants to make more for his friends because they never had oatmeal cookies with cherries and white chocolate. How deprived children they are!!! This is now a family favorite. Thanks!
Cakespy
Oh, to discover yet more delicious variations on the Oatmeal cookie–one of my favorites. This one looks sublime.
Margie
Sinful. Absolutely. Purely. They were comfort food in the beginning and will be at the end of time, but now they are just a tad bit more marvelous.
Cherries. White chocolate.
Blissful in all their glory. This recipe is a keeper.
sassy molassy
last night while getting pizza dough and beer at the grocery store, i grabbed white choc chips and dried cherries and the boyfriend grinned. He responded “what are you making and do i get to have some?” I’ll be making these tonight if he’s lucky. ;)
And, just curious, is there much of difference btwn using old fashioned oats VS quick oats?? Quick oats is what I tend to always have in the cupboard.
Kate
I like to tart them up even more by soaking whatever dried fruit I’m using in just a titch of rum or Irish whiskey.
Dawnna Boo
I just made strawberry (fresh from farmer’s market) chocolate oatmeal cookies that I thought were the best cookies I’ve ever had … these are sounding like they will be competition … can’t wait to try them.
Treehouse Chef
Very unique idea using the white chocolate! I will make these for sure!
Maria
Those look perfect! I love a good oatmeal cookie.
Anne R
You make my mouth all runny – and, btw – you’ve got an award! :)
Deanna
These cookies look scrumptious! Gonna make these for the family tonight.
Kate
mmm yummy dried fruit! I wonder how pieces of dried mango would taste in this… only one way to find out!
Culinarywannabe
These are the kind I make as well – but I like the chocolate and cherries addition!
Kate W.
I have been trying to get the recipe for oatmeal cookies with white chocolate chips and cranberries from a friend. I completely forgot that I haven’t received it but now, who needs it? I’ve got this one! Love your blog, Joy. I tell all my friends and fellow food lovers about it. I check your blog everyday too hoping to find something scrumptious and you never disappoint. Thanks!
Aimee
Yep yep! It’s gotta be brown sugar–and dried cherries are such a luxury up here.
mona
Those look heavenly!
Lucy
I agree wholeheartedly that chocolate makes everything better – especially chocolate in cookies! Heavenly :D
Jennifer
I have never made the quaker recipe. shhhhhhhh
Liska
I just want to say that your blog is absolutely amazing. I discovered it yesterday and can’t stop reading!
DeAnne
oh and a side note, Joy my 7 almost 8 year old daughter is a fan of your blog :)
DeAnne
this one is a great recipe and you’ve inspired me to bake some on this wonderfully rainy day . . . perhaps one day you’ll prove me wrong but the recipe on the bag of toll house morsels is my fav for chocolate chips :) both of these have probably been around for many many years but they got it right!
Nirvana
these cookies would not last an hour in my house :)
elisabeth
Greetings from Vienna/Austria, home of the famous Sachertorte, Apple-strudel, Gugelhupf and everything else that Mr. Schatzi Arnold Schwarzenegger has exported to your country :-)
We love your blog, big fans!
bj
lol. chocolate makes everything better. sooooooooooo true. man i want some of those cookies!
Heather
I am loving your site!! Beautiful pictures and really lovely recipes.
brilynn
You can pretty much add dried cherries to anything and I guarantee I’ll love it!
Val
I have all the ingredients to try these tomorrow, does chocolate semi-sweet work as well if I don’t have the white chocolate…guess I’ll see. Sounds yummy.
Michael
Looks delicious!
Kelli
Delicious. For a little salty, try adding some pistachios!
Kristen M.
I think the dark brown sugar makes the Quaker cookies just that much better. I always put a bit of fresh nutmeg in too for some depth.
And my guilty secret is that I tend to leave out the dried fruit and just add TONS of chocolate!
bellaguinness
I just made oatmeal cookies last night and was just about to blog the recipe – how timely! I actually call my favorite my mom’s recipe, but I tweak it a bit each time. Last night, I added 1/2 C dried cranberries and 1/2 C raisins, plus a generous C of Ghirardelli bittersweet chips. Yum. I also add a bit of cinnamon… Have a great weekend and enjoy those cookies.
Jenn E.
these look great! cherries and white chocolate seem like the perfect addition!
Betsy
This sounds absolutely heavenly. :) I’m going to look for cherries and chocolate today. Yummmmmmmmmmm. :)
Jennifer
Oh yes, oatmeal cookie and Quakers recipe reign!!! Simple is best sometimes :)
unconfidentialcook
Cherries…instead of raisins–great idea. And, I love white chocolate. We just made a white chocolate frosting for strawberry cake!
Dani
these are a flashback to childhood, thats for sure! now i got a craving hahaha
Allison N.
These kind of remind me of the Trader Joes frozen oatmeal cookies, but these look way yummier and BIGGER! I will def try this recipe this week.
shelley
This recipe looks fantastic. Would you or do you chill the dough… like with chocolate chip cookies?
Emily Jones
Wow, that looks amazing! I’m new to the blog, but a confirmed foodie. I have always used the Quaker recipe, but I have a troubleshooting question: the last 2-3 times I have made them, they turned out all funky, collapsed flat and all gooey. In a bad way. I have tried experimenting with less butter, with softened butter, etc. and I’m not sure why they are being weird. Could you help?!
Elyse
I love the combination of white chocolate and cherry. I had it in a yeast bread the other day, and it was quite divine. So, I can only imagine that this white chocolate cherry oatmeal cookie is beyond divine. They look absolutely delicious!
Steph
Yum! I love oatmeal cookies. I just made a batch that called for dried cherries, but I couldn’t find them so I had to sub in craisins.
Foodess
Mmm that look gorgeously thick and chewy. I just made some oatmeal cookies, too, but of the thin & crisp variety. I like both.
Jamieanne
Oh my gosh, I just posted a very similar recipe on my blog a few days ago, it was oatmeal cranberry white chocolate cookies, recipe via Ocean Spray Craisins. They were one of the best cookies I’ve ever eaten, and I’m sure that this recipe from Quaker with the cherries tastes really nice too! :)