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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!
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My hubby who doesn’t like cranberries just said these may be the best cookies I have ever made!! Winner! I did make these with gluten free free oats and flour. I also added a bit of orange zest because I couldn’t resist! Yum! Thank you!
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
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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.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Can I use quick minute oats instead of old fashioned?
Hi Christine. Yes, you can substitute quick oats with no issues.
These are the best cookies I’ve ever had!!! Every time I make them everyone loves them!!!! Question…could you make them in bar form or in a bundt pan???
Thanks Tina! I think bars would work with this recipe but not the Bundt pan.
I just made this recipe. Best cookies ever!!
Thank you
Thanks Caterina!
BEST cookies ever! I subbed dried cranberries for the pecans and used the regular amount of fresh cranberries. Seriously… go make these!
Thank you Penny!
I made the dough but I put it in the fridge overnight,I hope it’ll be ok and doesn’t dry out .
Hi Sharon. The covered dough will be fine in the fridge overnight.
Made these cookies for several functions and gatherings, and they are always a big hit. Only tips: 1. Always make sure your butter and eggs are room temperature, as it effects the texture of the cookies. 2. We use dried cranberries as they are always easy to find, and it adds a nice chewiness to them.
Thanks Carl!
At our house we dubbed these as breakfast cookies! Just took a whole batch to work & barely had any left! I used dried cranberries as I like the tartness.
Thank you Gina! Can’t beat cookies for breakfast!
This is a family favorite and works great with semisweet chocolate chips, too!
Thanks Kelly!
Use dried cranberries, not fresh. I’ve used both and the fresh turned the dough a blueish color and didn’t taste as good. But otherwise and excellent recipe. Made them again yesterday and they were the hit of our family picnic. I am always looking for good non-chocolate recipes for my mother who is allergic to any chocolate except white chocolate. She LOVED them! Thank you.
Thanks Lauren!
I was searching for a recipe to use white chocolate chips since enjoy life now makes dairy free ones. Finding yours that used oatmeal and fresh cranberries was a plus! Since another reviewer had tried making them gluten-free I decided to do that as well. I made a half batch and got 25 cookies. They came out delicious! In case it’s helpful to anyone else, I used coconut sugar for the regular sugar, and cardamom instead of cinnamon. I had someone on hand from some cardamom buns I made and the slightly orange tones from it go well with the cranberry. Will definitely make it again. Thank you!
Thank you Theresa!