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
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
- 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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487 comments on “White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies”
I’m making these for Christmas, but I don’t quite understand the temperature 356 degrees. My oven isn’t digital and I can’t imagine trying to find 356 degrees in it. Can I do 350 degrees?
Hi Jennifer. The oven temp is 350. Must have been a typo somewhere. Thanks!
I have given these cookies at Christmas for two years. This will be the third. Everyone loves them and begs for more. I have eliminated the chocolate chips because a lot of diabetics and people in the family who asked for them without. I use fresh cranberries and walnuts. My go to for oatmeal cookies. Thanks so much!
So glad everyone loves them Janet. Thank you!
Delicious but mine flattened after they came out of the oven. Did anyone else have this happen and maybe they were supposed to idk.
Thanks Lisa. Sorry to hear that they flattened. There are several reasons why this could have happened. The first thing I would do would to make sure the oven temp is correct. Second, if you didn’t chill the dough try chilling it for 30 minutes before baking the cookies.
Best cookies! Nothing but wonderful comments at the Friendsgiving party! I made them from start to finish in 50 minutes!
So glad your friends enjoyed them. Thanks Kathleen!
Love this recipe! I made with walnuts and dark chocolate chips. Will make again for an upcoming cookie party.
Sounds delicious Susan. Thanks!
Can you make cookie bars with this recipe? How?
Hi Donna. I haven’t tried that with this recipe but don’t see why it wouldn’t work. I would probably try a 9×13 and just keep an eye on the cooking time.
Hi! I love these cookies and wondering if I can freeze them? I am unable to bake more than a couple hours at a time. Thanks!
Hi Jeanne. Yes, these cookies do freeze well.
Delicious soft oatmeal cookie with the taste of Christmas. I substituted fresh squeezed orange for the vanilla and added the zest from the orange to the wet ingredients…amazing twist on an already perfect cookie
That sounds wonderful Lianna. Thanks!
Is it dark brown sugar – or the light brown sugar?
Not that it needs it- but one could bring out the orange a little more by adding orange flavoring. Wouldn’t a orange glaze with zest be awesome to drizzle the top it with! This recipe has so many twists you could add! So Christmassy!
Hi Sally. We use light brown sugar in this recipe. The orange glaze sounds amazing!
These are my favorite cookies!! Be sure to use the hints in the post for the best results! Love this recipe!
Thanks Cindy!