I've been making this recipe since it first came out in Everyday Food years ago and I get requests to make more each time. It comes together so easily. I can't emphasize enough how important it is to use good quality chocolate. I once tried it with a lessor quality chocolate and just had to throw the whole batch of cookies away, otherwise it's a very forgiving recipe. I've added nuts, taken out the cherries, increased the chocolate chips and it's still worked.

This recipe is wonderful - we add about 1 cup more cherries than called for in the recipe because we like a stronger cherry flavor. We also made a batch without the cherries and added 12 oz of peanut butter chips; increased the baking time by 3 minutes...HUGE hit at our house.

Did anyone else have trouble with the chocolate seizing in this recipe? I was surprised to find it becoming thick and very crumbly after combining chocolate and dry ingredients. As I added the chocolate & cherries, it got stiffer still. Chilling made it firmer, but did not lessen the crumbliness. I always like it when recipes warn of likely hazards. I'm wondering if this was a wild fluke or something to be very careful about in the future. Any ideas?

These are excellent and get rave reviews from recipients of my cookie boxes. The secret is the one suggested by another reviewer to soak the cherries in bourbon! Very tasty.

I made these for our annual Cookie Exchnage - super yummy !! Made them smaller, and got about 5 dozen.

Rich

These cookies are my favorite indulgence! If you love dark chocolate you will LOVE these cookies. I think they are best slightly underbaked.

I soaked the dried cherries in warm bourbon for 20 minutes, drained them well, and added an extra spoonful of flour to make up for the added liquid. Sublime!

Delicious, very rich triple chocolate cookies. Almost like a brownie with cherries. Be careful not to overcook or I can imagine these would get dry. They'll look undercooked in the center when you pull them out. I used montmorency dried cherries, which are tart and provide a nice contrast to the rich chocolate cookie.

Cranraisins can be used in this recipe also....They add a special "tang"....