Chocolate Covered Raisins Cookie Recipe makes thin cookies with crisp edges and a bit of chew thanks to the movie theater box or Raisinets in the dough. Semi-sweet chocolate chips make this cookie even richer.
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Does any food incite rage and horror more than raisins? Even if they're coated in chocolate? This cookie, which includes a box of Raisinets, may change your raisin opinion if you're one of the naysayers.
So, I have to be literally starving and on a deserted island without a fishing pole or a stick before I'll willing eat a raisin, even a chocolate-covered one.
So, it is much to my amazement how much I love these cookies. This post contains affiliate links.
First of all, I was introduced to these cookies at a birthday party. They were on a cake plate, looking all the world like your basic chocolate chip cookie, so I ate one. No one said anything about raisins. And it was so good. Good in a chocolate chip cookie way but also with a bit of complexity and an unexpected bit of chewiness. So I ate another.
Then I found the hostess.
"'I must have this cookie recipe,' I shouted to her over the din of the party."
"Aren't they great," she said.
"Mmmmhmmm," I mumbled with mouthful of cookie.
"They've got chocolate-covered raisins in them!"
And then I fainted dead away. Kidding. I didn't but I thought I might. I did ask her for the recipe, which she produced the next morning after I texted "a thank you for the party and also, get me that recipe stat message."
Chocolate Covered Raisins Cookie Recipe
Whose brilliant idea was it to put chocolate covered raisins in a cookie? Aren't they something to put into trail mix to drive young children or immature middle-aged women mad?
Apparently, the recipe is from The Wasp Cookbook by Alexandra Wentworth, which is out of print.
Wentworth calls these "Hayride Cookies" in the book. No amount of googling has brought me any recipe for Hayride Cookies so I'm not sure if this recipe is solely Wentworth's invention or not.
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Tip for Making Raisinet Cookies
You're making a drop cookie dough so the process is straightforward.
Mix your butter and sugars and vanilla extract.
Add dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
Tools I used for this recipe include:
- half sheet pan
- parchment paper
- cookie scoop (I use something similar from a kitchen supply store). If you have trouble with cookies that don't look round or uniform in size, you need to use a cookie scoop.
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Chocolate Covered Raisin Cookie Recipe
Chocolate covered raisins cookie recipe is what your next tall, frosty glass of milk needs. This recipe makes thin cookies with crisp edges and a bit of chew thanks to the chocolate covered raisins. Chocolate covered raisins, not just for trail mix anymore!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 3 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chocolate covered raisins, 2 movie theater boxes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter in a mixing bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer. Add sugars and mix about three minutes until fluffy. Don't forget to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula and to scrape the bottom of the bowl, if using a stand mixer.
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly to combine.
- Stir in vanilla extract.
- Add flour and baking soda. Mix until just combined.
- Add chocolate covered raisins and chocolate chips. Stir with spatula well to combine.
- Using a #30 or #40 cookie scoop, drop scoops of dough on parchment lined sheet. If using a half sheet pan, you can get 12 cookies on a sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes. When you smell the cookies, they are done or nearly so.
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