Chocolate Fruit and Nut Cookies

1 ¼ cup butter

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

¾ cups cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

2 cups choco chips

1 cup chopped dried apricots (or crasins or both)

1 cup chopped macadamia nuts

In large mixer bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. In separate bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; blend into butter mixture. Stir in choco chips, apricots and nuts. Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 12-14 min.

I add half white chips, half chocolate chips. Also, I never combine the dry separately, I just add all the dry after the wet has been mixed well. You might have to adjust the flour for altitude. In Colorado (really high), the 2 cups are pretty well-packed cups. Less for lower altitudes... Finally, I like softer cookies, so I only bake them for 11 minutes.