Chewy Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cherries

If I'm baking it means one of two things: 1. I have a crush on someone and I'm trying to woo them with sugar; 2. I'm really stressed out and trying to calm myself with sugar. This weekend's baking is brought to you by the latter...Though if you know any dapper, tall, skinny, silly, bike-riding, book reading, non meat eating gentlemen who like art and good music, I'd be happy to be baking for the former reason...It usually means that I eat fewer of the cookies!

Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cherries
1 cup all purpose flour
3/4 t baking soda
1/4 t baking powder
1/4 t salt

1/2 c Earth Balance
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 c vegan sugar
1 t vanilla
1 t cinnamon
1.5 T flax meal blended with 3 T non-dairy milk

1 c quick cook oats
3/4 c vegan chocolate chips
1/2 c chopped dried tart cherries

Line a cookie sheet with unbleached parchment paper and place in the freezer.

Sift the dry ingredients in a small bowl.

In a large mixing bowl, cream the earth balance and sugar for 3 minutes. Add the vanilla, cinammon and flax/milk "egg" and beat for one more minute.

Fold in the dry ingredients until you have a sticky dough. Mix in the oats, chocolate chips and cherries. If the dough is still really wet, add another 1- 2 T flour.

Place the cookie dough in the fridge for 15 minutes while the oven preheats to 350.

Scoop the dough (about 1.5 T/ cookie) onto the cold cookie sheet and bake in the top of the oven for 15 minutes, turning the sheet halfway through. Let the cookies cool on a rack...And try not to eat them all yourself.

Depending on how much cookie dough you eat, this recipe makes about 20 large-ish cookies.