Dark Chocolate & Sour Cherry Cookies

These are insane. I first made them last Christmas – I can’t remember how I stumbled across the recipe, but I’m really glad I did. These cookies are one of the many delicious looking things that Sydney’s Bourke Street Bakery has to offer - a chewy, intensely chocolately cookie studded with tart cherries... decadent yet balanced. Straight up delicious.

This particular batch came about for a few reasons: first, my brother recently came back from Toronto, and he brought me a jar of Soma Dutched cocoa powder (which I wanted to use). Secondly, he and I struck a deal that if I baked something good with that cocoa powder, he would put on my winter tires. Bonus reason: I wanted to include these in a box of goodies for a certain special guy on our second date. The results have been amazing. Having traction on ice is alright, too.

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