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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272 comments on “White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies”
Had to bake mine for 14 mins and DEFINITELY grease the cookie sheet! So good and yummmy!Â
thanks for the info, i had to bake mine longer too but they are fantastic. I also added coconut to mine.
I am not the best at making cookies, but these came out AMAZING!!! Really great recipe!
Oh my gosh these are difinatly a keeper they scream Christmas .my husband said there the best cookies he’s ever ate!
Great recipe a five + star. Thank you for sharing.
My new favorite cookie. Delicious
My favorite cookie.
Made for my Wife or Her request..They are tasty and Soft..Good Recipe..thxs
Can you make dough and refrigerate for day until need to bake them Â
Made these cookies they were easy and tasted awesomeÂ
The cookies look and smell delicious. I can hardly wait for them to cool. My one question was about the nutritional info. It says a serving is 48 cookies. Ah if only lol. What is it supposed to be? Thanks.
Do I use self rising flour or all purpose flour?
All-purpose flour.
Love this recipe!  Couldn’t keep my husband out of the cookie jar OR the freezer!
These cookies are awesome! They are easy, and oh so yummy. Â They are going on my Christmas cookie trays for sure.Â
Very good cookie. I chopped up half of the chips and left the other half whole. I also used dried cranberry and walnuts. A fun cookie to make. I also pressed the cookie down with a sugared glass bottom before baking to give cookie a slight sheen
GREAT
These are the best oatmeal cookies evcer!! I made a batch a couple days ago & only made half the amount of cookies because my family kept sneaking bites of the cookie dough. These cookies were soft and delicous!!
Can this be converted to a bar recipe rather than cookie ? I hate to make cookies. Thanks
Perfect in every way!! I baked mine about 8.5 minutes and that was perfect.Â
I made these cookies, taste is great but they came out very flat. I did cool my dough, got any tips
I’m just wondering why you have to use old fashioned oats instead of quick oats. I have quick oats on hand and was hoping to use them.
I made these to freeze ahead for my Christmas Cookie Trays. I used dried craisins instead of fresh cranberries and I omitted the nuts due to allergies. These were absolutely amazing. I am so glad I found this recipe. They will definitely be included in any cookie baking I do from here on out!
I just made these cookies, they are delightful! I was wondering how they would do if I froze them? I noticed you said you froze them, how were they after being frozen? This recipe is awesome! I also used dried cranberries!Â
I froze them, actually would eat them right out of the freezer. They were just as good!
Going to try these but use dried cranberries because I have so many. I hope the moisture level is still ok