Rum-Raisin and Cashew Drop Cookies

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Photo: Jonathan Lovekin
Prep Time:
20 mins
Total Time:
35 mins
Yield:
36

This dough can also be used for Chocolate-Pecan, Coconut-Lime Oatmeal, Peanut Butter and Cherry, and Chocolate-Toffee Oatmeal drop cookies.

Ingredients

  • 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)

  • ½ teaspoon baking soda

  • ¾ teaspoon fine salt

  • 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature

  • ½ cup granulated sugar

  • ¾ cup packed light-brown sugar

  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

  • 2 large eggs

  • 1 ½ cups raisins soaked in ½ cup rum and drained

  • 1 ½ cups chopped cashews

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. In a medium bowl, using a mixer, beat butter and sugars until pale and fluffy, 4 minutes. Add vanilla and eggs and beat until combined. Add flour mixture and beat until just combined. Mix in rum-soaked raisins and cashews.

  2. Drop dough in 2-tablespoon-size balls on parchment-lined baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies are golden around the edges but still soft in the center, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool on sheets 1 to 2 minutes, then transfer to wire racks and let cool completely.

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