Heart-healthy vegan muffins made with fresh red cherries and chopped dark chocolate. Minimal ingredients and equipment keep these simple, approachable and quick.
I use butter and eggs right out of the refrigerator so the dough stays cool and the cookies maintain their thickness during baking; I also use ungreased cookie sheets. To keep the cookies soft and chewy, store them in an airtight container along with a slice of bread.
I modified Beatrice's Excellent Oatmeal cookies very slightly. I came up with something that my boyfriend went CRAZY over! I've never seen him enjoy cookies to that extent! He said I blew his mother's recipe away.
'Both my daughters love these sweet muffins,' reports Lori Thompson of New London, Texas. 'I usually double the recipe so I have extras to keep in the freezer for a quick breakfast or snack.'
Get your glass of ice cold milk ready! Each cookie, loaded with chocolate chips and nuts, is a treat worthy of dunking. Try them as pan cookies, cut into brownie-like squares.
'I'm one of the cooking project leaders for my daughter's 4-H club, where these soft delicious cookies were a great hit with the kids,' reports Marietta Slater of Augusta, Kansas.
These treats come heartily endorsed by Joanne Shew Chuk of St. Benedict, Saskatchewan. She relates, 'I bake a lot of different muffins, but I use this recipe the most.'
