These oatmeal dried strawberry cookies have cacao nibs and a chocolate heart in the center, creating a beautifully but easy to make treat!
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and though I will use basically ANY DAY as an excuse to bake a chocolate dessert, I’ve mellowed a bit in my years. I don’t need to do an intense chocolate dessert like easy fudge brownies, my Texas sheet cake, or my bakery-style chocolate chips cookies. I still like to occasionally make my strawberry chocolate cheesecake, but less often than I used. And of course, my grilled chocolate and strawberry sandwiches are a simple and delightfully quick dessert.
But this year I decided to do a riff on my classic oatmeal raisin cookie, but Valentin-ize it, by swapping the raisins with dried strawberries, adding in a healthy dose of cacao nibs, and placing a chocolate heart on top after it’s been baked, just like my secret ingredient peanut butter blossoms. Once cooled my husband immediately ate three of them. In an effort to not have as many in the house, I gave a few to my friend Lisa Lin and her husband Chris, who I met up with the next day. She texted me on the drive home, telling me the cookies were delicious and started asking me what was in them. Here’s the recipe, now get back to watching the road Lisa!
…