White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies - the most requested Cookie Recipe for the Holidays. (2024)

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Enjoy easy, soft White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies. A delicious and simple holiday cookie recipe to add to your baking list that everyone will absolutely Love!

Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Cranberries are the perfect addition in chewy oatmeal cookies. It’s like they were meant to go together! Trust me when I tell you that this is one cookie recipe you’ll want to keep on hand for the holidays. This is one cookie recipe you don’t see too often at a cookie exchange. You just might get first prize!

If you’re looking for new Christmas Cookie recipes you have certainly found yourself in the right spot. Besides this amazing recipe here, you’ll find Eggnog Cookies, Hot Cocoa Cookies and more. Isn’t baking around the holidays just so fun?

What You Need:

Oatmeal Cookie Dough: The oatmeal cookies are a basic oatmeal cookie dough recipe with Old Fashion Oats (NOT quick oats!), Cinnamon, Butter, Brown Sugar, Sugar, Eggs, Vanilla extract, Flour, Baking Soda, and Salt.

Add ins: While you can use a lot of things as the add in for these cookies, I am use Fresh Cranberries, Pecans, and White Chocolate Chips

How To Make Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

• Make the cookie dough: Cream the butter and sugar, and then add one egg at a time. Add the vanilla. In another bowl combine the dry ingredients. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until combined. Fold in the add ins and oats.
• Bake: Drop the cookie dough on ungreased cookie sheets with parchment paper (or silicone baking mat). Bake for about 12 minutes until the edges start to turn brown. Cool on a wire cooling rack.

Tips For The Best Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies:

• Don’t pack the flour. Be sure to scoop it gently and level it off evenly.
• Don’t over-mix. Once ingredients are mixed together stop without over mixing.
• Use softened butter. Like most cookies, don’t try and use cold butter. You can do this quickly by filling a glass with very hot water. Then once it has warmed the glass, pour it out and cover the stick of butter with the warm glass. This will soften the butter.
• Eggs at Room Temperature: Use room temperature eggs. They mix more evenly into the dough, giving your cookies a better texture.
• Mix-ins: Gently fold in white chocolate chips and dried cranberries at the end. Don’t overmix; this ensures an even distribution without crushing the ingredients. You can also replace the pecans for walnuts.
• Chilling the Dough: For even better texture and flavor, chill the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. This prevents the cookies from spreading too much in the oven.
• Cooling: Let them cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. This helps them set and finish cooking without overbaking.
• Storing: Store your cookies in an airtight container. If you want to keep them soft, you can add a slice of bread to the container. The cookies will absorb the moisture from the bread, staying soft longer.

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