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.
More Delicious Cookie Recipes
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- No Bake Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
- Rocky Road Cookies
- Dark Chocolate Cookies
- Strawberry Crinkle Cookies
Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 cup fresh cranberries quartered
- 1 cup pecans chopped
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until creamy. Mix in eggs one at a time, then mix in the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
- Add flour mixture to the butter/sugar mixture and stir until well combined.
- Stir in oats, cranberries, pecans and white chocolate chips.
- Drop about a tablespoon of dough onto ungreased cookie sheet for each cookie leaving 2 inches of space between each mound of dough.
- Bake for approximately 10-12 minutes or until cookies start to brown around the edges. Cool on a cooling rack.
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272 comments on “White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies”
Also inquiring if I can use dried cranberries!!
Yes! We prefer fresh, but you can also use dried and these will still be wonderful.
Just made these cookies. I love them! They are so yummy!!
I made these cookies right by the recipe and they are one of the best cookies I have eaten in a long time. I need to hide them, I can’t stay away. This recipe is a keeper for me!!
Thank you for sharing it on Pinterest.
also want to know if I can use dry cranberries…thx
These are absolutely delicious! How do you store them after they cool? Mine were perfectly crisp on the bottom and soft in the middle but became very soggy after a night in an airtight container.Â
The cookies are delicious, I love the fresh cranberries . What is the best way to.store these?
I have not tried this yet but close in another recipe and delicious
Merry Christmas.
The nutrition says 1 serving is 48 cookies.  That can’t be right.  What is a true serving that equals 110 calories? Â
Yum! These would be perfect for Christmas. Thanks I’ll give them a try.
The nutritional label show 48 cookies as 1 serving. I’m sure that is a mistake. Is there any way you can update that? I am a diabetic so I really need to watch my carbs.
Thanks.
Can’t wait to try.
Can dried cranberries be used instead of fresh cranberries?
Looks great,,the per serving is that once cookie or for all 48
Great! Combination is delicious!
Can I use dried cranberries?
Could I use dried cranberries instead of fresh? Â
I actually use oceanspray craisins , plus I add some diced apples…..so good!
Please put a print option with recipes.
Hi Sheran, There is a print option right under the photo in the recipe box. thanks!
Can I use dried cranberries in this
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Haven’t made this but would like too. Can frozen cranberries be used instead of fresh
Love the recipe!
Thank you.
Merry Christmas!
These are Fantastic!Â
Just took my first batch out of the oven! My house smells amazing, these cookies are so good. I couldn’t wait till they were cooled to try one. Thank you so much for the recipe, it is one I will be adding to my holiday baking.