Coffee and/ or cereal for breakfast, on your own for lunch and cookies for dinner.  This was our household meal plan for the last few weeks.  What outstanding timing for The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap to happen, it was the same time Sir Wes and I were both barreling thru our busiest weeks of the year.  Three deliveries of cookies landed on our doorstep, perfectly synched to provide our nourishment thru Crazytown.

Cookies for dinner, for two weeks, and I am not even embarrassed.  These gems were fantastic.  Rachel from Kvell in the Kitchen made us Iced Whiskey Ginger Cookies (great week for whiskey), we got a batch of Chai Snickerdoodles that I loved (a couple made it into my morning coffee) and Traci from Burnt Apple’s cookies landed last- melt in your mouth butterscotch delights.

I recruited a few chefs that I work with to help me brainstorm what kind of cookie to make, the idea list got pretty long and I have a few of them planned in the future- but we finally landed on the perfect cookie to sip a glass of wine with.  Chocolate Cherry Cordial Cookies, made with port wine, 70% dark chocolate chunks and sun dried cherries. 

Inspired by a couple of great chefs and slightly modified from the Food Network

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup good quality cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup port wine
• 6 ounces dark chocolate, broken into chunks
• 1/2 cup dried tart cherries

 Directions

 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

 Combine flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda in a bowl. In a bowl of an electric mixer, or with a handheld mixer, combine butter and sugars until fluffy. Add egg, vanilla, and wine and combine. Slowly in batches add the flour mixture until just combined. Fold in the chocolate and cherries. On a nonstick cookie sheet, place a heaping tablespoon of dough for each cookie about 2 inches apart from each other. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until tops are still soft looking but edges look firm. 

The cookie swap this year was a ton of fun- I can’t wait to see all the posts and get my cookie baking on!!  Thanks to Lindsay from Love and Olive Oil and Julie from The Little Kitchen for organizing such an enormous event.  And a huge shout out to the participants that all supported a great cause- Cookies for Cancer.  I can’t wait to see how much The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap collected for such an important cause! 

Cheers to all the cookie monsters out there- and though it isn’t a diet I would recommend for any length of time- remember, cookies for dinner are OK.  (sometimes)