Cookies Gone Bad

This morning I tried a variation of the gluten-free cookies. I replaced the dried apricots with dried cherries, the coconut with white chocolate chips and the ginger with a 1/4 tsp cardamom. Didn't work! The cookies spread out into a single flat blob on the cookie sheet. I suspect replacing the coconut with white chocolate had two negative effects. In the next trial, I will keep the coconut and vary the fruit and spice.