Coconut Oil Chocolate Cherry Molasses Cookies

 This is my third coconut oil and pumpkin seed cookie, and once again there are two versions of it. Both versions have chopped fresh cherries. One version has a turbinado sugar coating, and the other has no coating but has 4 or 5 milk chocolate mini chips hidden amoung the cherries.  

When I found the chocolate molasses cookies on the King Arthur Flour site, I started looking for the fruit that compliment the chocolate and let the coconut oil work more like butter. King Arthur's Chocolate Molasses Buttons recipe (basically a molasses double chocolate thumbprint cookie) called for ten tablespoons of butter. I used 10 tablespoons refined coconut oil, 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh cherries and pureed them together with 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract.
                                                           

I'll have to make another run at this recipe. It turned out excellent and I need more of them to share. I was concentrating on getting it right first try and I didn't get any pictures. I'll fix that next batch. The mix notes will most likely get a work over as well but these will get you there in the mean time. They are a bit hard to put down. Oh yeah, they're hardly delicious at all.