3 Cups Dried Cherries
1 ½ Tsp Baking Soda
5 Cups flour
2 cubes and 1 TBS of Butter
1 3/4 plus 1 TBS Cup sugar
1 3/4 plus 1 TBS Cup light brown sugar
4 eggs
1 TBS vanilla
1 ½ tsp almond extract
2 Cups white chocolate chips
1 Cup chocolate chips
1 3/4 Cups macadamia nuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silpat liners.
Place dried cherries in bowl and cover with boiling water. Let sit 30 minutes to plump up. Drain well, pat dry and coarsely chop.
Whisk together salt, baking soda, and flour in a small bowl. Set aside
In a large bowl cream together butter, white, sugar, and brown sugar. Beat in eggs, vanilla and almond extract. Add flour mixture to butter mixture half at a time and mix until combined. Fold in cherries, white chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips and macadamia nuts. Refrigerate cookie dough 30 t0 45 minutes to firm up.
Drop dough by the tablespoon onto prepared baking sheets, placing cookies about 1 ½ to 2 inches apart. Bake 12 to 14 minutes until lightly browned around the edges. Cook 10 minutes on cookie sheets before removing to racks to cool completely store in a covered container.