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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- No Bake Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
- Rocky Road Cookies
- Dark Chocolate Cookies
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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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402 comments on “White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies”
Excellent!
Thanks Andrea!
Hello, can salted butter be used instead of unsalted
Hi Danielle. Yes, salted butter can be substituted for unsalted. I would cut the salt down to 1/4 teaspoon.
Great. One more question. Do you do treat the cranberries if using Fresh one or do they soften up during the baking time ?
If you use fresh cranberries they will soften during baking.
First time making these, awesome!
Thanks Jeanne!
These have been a favorite for a few years now. This year, I made them gluten free and they were still delicious!
Yay! Thanks Laura!
This is quite possibly the perfect Christmas cookie! I’ve been making it for years. The only thing I do differently is chill the dough for a few hours before baking. Thank you for sharing this fantastic recipe!
Thanks Brenda! Yes, chilling is always a great extra step.
These are sooooo good!!! Watch your time as each oven is different on the temps and times. I added a little more cinnamon and extra white chips.
Thank you Kim!
Should I decrease the sugar when using dried cranberries?
Hi Polly. Yes, I would consider decreasing by about a third as they tend to be overly sweet as you will loose the tartness of the fresh cranberries.
Can you use 1 minute cooking oats in place of rolled oats??
Hi Tina. Yes the cooking oats will substitute fine for the rolled oats. It will just give the cookies a slightly different texture.
How long do they keep after making them they are delicious
Hi Pat. For best results around 3 days at room temperature, up to a week in the fridge and a few months in the freezer.
I made these for a cookie exchange.
I used dried cranberries and white chocolate but left out the pecans in case of nut allergies. They were fantastic. The next time I will add the pecans when I make for us.
Great recipe!
Thanks Ruth!
Could rolled oats work too??
Hi Elise. Yes, rolled or quick oats will work fine depending on the texture you want.
I was told last year if your cookies spread out flat it is because of the butter you used. This year I only bought pure butter to bake with. Kerrygold pure unsalted butter. Salted butter has more water content
Great twist on oatmeal cookies! These cookies are a family favorite during the holidays.
Thank you Kay Dee!
Soft and chest but I found 9 minutes to be best without burning the bottom
These are amazing! I used the dried cranberries. And so yummy!
Thank you Lesli!
do you plain flour or self rising?
Hi Sandra. We use all-purpose flour for these cookies.
Easy and worth the time spent making these. We make these every Christmas
Thank you Edna!
Can quick cooking oats be used in these cookies
Hi Nancy. Yes you can substitute quick oats with no issues.
This cookies are delicious, I made some changes with some of the ingredients like I used walnuts instead of pecans and didn’t add the white chocolate which are not my favorite and I used dried cranberries instead of the fresh ones. Even with all those changes they are delicious; oh one more thing, I only made half of the recipe and it made 24 cookies. Very easy to convert to half. Thanks highly recommended!
Thanks Esty!
These cookies are delicious and pretty for the holiday season. I used fresh cranberries. I too had problems with flat cookies though-spread out and not mounted in the middle, reason for 4 instead of 5 stars. I chilled the dough and added an extra 1/2 cup of flour.