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”
Yummy cookies! I used dried cranberries and a mix of both regular and white chocolate chips. These cookies are wonderful! Next time I plan to try using cherries instead of cranberries. The recipe makes a great traditional oatmeal raisin cookie too (minus the chocolate)
Would the cookies turn out ok if I used quick oats versus old fashioned oats?
Quick oats will result in a much drier cookie. I would not recommend quick oats.
These were perfect! I subbed pistachios for the pecans and they were perfection!
Made this delicious recipe today, flavor is AMAZING! However, my cookies went flat, any help would be appreciated, I plan on making more.
These are so incredibly delicious! I followed the recipe, but used dried cherries and walnuts. Next time I make these I may cut back on the sugar (since there is sugar in the chips) by omitting the white sugar. It’s nice that you really only need to place them about an inch apart on the cookie sheet because they don’t spread much. I baked them on a silicone cooking sheet and they turned out just perfect at 12 minutes. What I especially like about this recipe is that it makes a lot of cookies! I used a standard cookie scoop and got just over four dozen.
I make these all year long. Friends and family love them
I use dried cranberries.
Started making these in November, and now it’s my go to cookie recipe. It’s everyone’s favorite!
Could you use blueberries
Hi Suzanne! That sounds wonderful as well. We also have a Blueberry White Chocolate Cookie recipe on our site that you might want to check out. They are delicious!
Just made these cookies and they are delicious! I didn’t have fresh cranberries in hand, so I used dried sweetened cranberries.
Will definitely make them again.
Can margarine be used instead of butter?
Hi Diane, YES!
Made these today, added zest as well as juice from one orange, used chopped almonds instead of pecans and used the whole bag of white chips. Used an ice cream scoop to portion cookie dough and then slightly flattened them before baking. AMAZING!
Wonderful cookie recipe! Pecans improve flavor of similar cookies I’ve had before. I did sub half Crisco for 1/2 of butter, as I wanted to be sure of a soft and chewy texture.
We LOVE these cookies. I have brought them to several gatherings and everyone wants the recipe. Couldn’t find fresh cranberries, so used dried ones, chopped a little.
I found the batter hard to mix with a mixing spoon and ended up using my hands…like kneading dough!
Also, it made closer to 58 cookies.
My husband always takes baked goods into work and shares. He said these were to good to share. This is a great cookie.
This is my favorite cookie!! My friend sent me this recipe to bake for Christmas. Everyone loved them! I have baked them 4 times since Christmas!
For those asking/commenting, I took it to mean the batch makes 48 cookies and the #’s are for one cookie. Yes?
These cookies were delicious! Followed the recipe exactly, wouldn’t change a thing.
How many cookies does this recipe make? Love your recipes! Merry Christmas and thanks!
I used craisins instead of fresh cranberries. They are delicious! I definitely will make them again. I may try fresh cranberries next time. ♥️
These were an absolute favorite. Don’t forget to refrigerate the dough.