RECIPE
Oatmeal Chip Cranberry Cookies
Today is Day 7 of Christmas Cookie. This is the second type of cookie with cranberries in it. Cranberries are popular around Christmas so I decided to update my oatmeal cranberry chip cookie. I love oatmeal cookies. In fact one of my very favorite cookies, I make is my brown sugar oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. This recipe is inspire by that cookie and my oatmeal raisin cookie recipe.
This cookie is pretty straight forward to make. I refrigerate the dough for a little bit, this helps them from spreading so much. My preferred method is making the dough ahead of time, scoop the dough and freeze them. Honesty a lot of times I will make the cookie dough ahead of time and freeze it, especially during Christmas baking season. That way I can bake the cookies when I need them.
I think cranberries are underrated. I love cranberries, but I think they have to be paired with something.I love them paired with chocolates, orange and rosemary are three of my favorite ways to pair them.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 3 ½ cups oatmeal
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¾ cups mixture of chocolate chips and white chocolate chips
- ¾ cups dried cranberries
Directions
- In a large mixing bowl cream together butter, brown sugar and sugar, until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, mix until combined. Add vanilla extract and mix for 30 seconds.
- Slowly add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, mix on low speed until just combined.
- Add the oatmeal on low speed and mix until combined.
- Add cranberries and chocolate chips, mix until combined.
- Cover the mixing bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Using a small cookie scoop, scoop dough onto prepared cookie sheets about 2” apart.
- Bake for 11 minutes or until done. Frozen cookie dough will take an additional 1-2 minutes to bake.
Tips & Recommendations
You can use either all chocolate chips or white chocolate chips or a mixture of both. If you using real cranberries, make sure to chop them up.