White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

Name: White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter (softened); 1 cup brown sugar (packed); 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 large eggs; 2 tsp. vanilla extract; 3 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour (bleached flour toughens baked goods); 1 tsp. baking powder; 1 tsp. baking soda; 1 tsp. salt; 1 1/2 cups rolled oats; 2 cups white chocolate chips; 1 cup dried cranberries (Craisins)

July 23, 2012Teresa Ambra

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe

Teresa’s Bake Shop – Christmas Cookie Extravaganza – 2012

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are fabulous cookies filled with amazing flavor in every bite. The cranberries and white chocolate chips fill the air of your home with a delicate fragrance while baking. The tartness of the cranberries with the sweetness of the white chocolate chips provide a wonderful combination of excellent flavors. These festive holiday cookies are amazing.

Follow Me On Instagram!

These delicious treats are ones we make almost every year for Christmas cookie baking. I normally use vanilla chips instead of white chocolate chips, but both work excellently. This cookie is very rich, with wonderful flavors and texture. The craisins and oatmeal make it a rather hearty cookie and one your family will enjoy as much as all the people on our Christmas cookie baking list each year!

The recipe for White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies makes about 4 dozen cookies using a golf ball as a measure of the size your dough balls before baking. As I’ve stated in earlier posts we almost always roll dough into balls before baking rather than merely dropping by tablespoonfuls so we get a more uniform shape and not kooky-looking and odd-shaped cookies.

I received this recipe from Donna Gipson when I worked at Dallas Baptist University during the early 2000s trying to put my kids through college. I’ve always loved this recipe and have made it many times throughout the years. Everyone we’ve ever given the cookie to has always raved over it as well. Give White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies a try this holiday season. You will be so glad you did.

When I initially made this recipe in July 2012 it was right after I began blogging. I remade and retook the pictures in November 2012, but still the pictures were taken with an iPhone so they were not crisp and clear. I also had too many Christmas props so the pictures were busy.

I recently remade these cookies for friends we were visiting in Florida (July 2016). I updated the pictures so you can have a better appreciation of these delicious cookies.

Don’t White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies look luscious? They are beautiful enough to wrap up as gifts, too.

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are filled with oatmeal, white chocolate or vanilla chips and craisins for spectacular flavor.

These festive Christmas cookies are great for holiday entertaining. Your guests will love them.

Here’s what I did.

I used these ingredients.

Soften butter. Place in a large mixing bowl with sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder and baking soda.

Cream with an electric mixer until smooth.

Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. (Bleached flour toughens baked goods). Add oatmeal, craisins and white chocolate chips (or vanilla chips–whatever you’re using).

Stir with a wooden spoon to combine.

Form cookie dough into golf-ball sized balls and place on greased cookie sheets.

Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes or until done.

White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies are calling my name!

We love making these delightful cookies for Christmas parties, but you can make them all year round because the ingredients are readily available.

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are some of our favorites. We made them for friends when we took them on vacation to Florida with us. Everyone loved them!

Here’s the recipe.

WHITE CHOCOLATE CRANBERRY COOKIES

(Recipe given to me by Donna Gipson, when we both worked at Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, TX)

White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies

Teresa Ambra

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are so drool-worthy! These fabulous oatmeal cookies are filled with white chocolate chips and dried cranberries for a marvelous, festive cookie that's great for holiday entertaining. Vanilla chips can also be used in this recipe for excellent effect and taste.

No ratings yet

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 25

Cook Time 15

Total Time 40

Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings

Calories 145 kcal

Equipment

3 18x26" cookie sheet pans
1 large mixing bowl
1 electric mixer
1 wooden spoon
1 spatula
measuring cups
measuring spoons

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter softened
1 cup brown sugar packed
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
3 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
2 cups white chocolate chips
1 cup dried cranberries Craisins

Instructions

In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugars with an electric mixer until smooth.
Stir in eggs and vanilla, then flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Mix well, stir in oats, white chocolate chips and cranberries.
Roll into balls and drop onto lightly sprayed cookie sheet.
Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until done.
Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks every six minutes of baking time.
Makes between 4-5 dozen cookies.

Notes

NOTE: My cookies took close to 16 minutes to bake completely.

NOTE: White chocolate chips and vanilla chips each work really well with this recipe.

^© Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen

Nutrition

Calories: 145kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 2gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 84mgPotassium: 47mgFiber: 1gSugar: 14gVitamin A: 122IUVitamin C: 0.04mgCalcium: 28mgIron: 1mg

Keyword cookie, cranberry, dessert, white chocolate chips

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

[b]White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies[/b]

Recipe Type: Cookies, Brownies and Bars

Cuisine: American

Author: Teresa Ambra adapted from Donna Gipson, when we worked together at Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, TX

Prep time: 25 mins

Cook time: 12 mins

Total time: 37 mins

Serves: 52

These fabulous oatmeal cookies are filled with white chocolate chips and dried cranberries for a marvelous, festive cookie that’s great for holiday entertaining. Vanilla chips can also be used in this recipe for excellent effect and taste.

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups Gold Medal UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 ½ cups rolled oats
2 cups white chocolate chips
1 cup dried cranberries (Craisins)

Instructions

In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugars until smooth.
Stir in eggs and vanilla, then flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Mix well, stir in oats, white chocolate chips and cranberries.
Roll into balls and drop onto lightly sprayed cookie sheet.
Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until done.
Makes between 4-5 dozen cookies.

Notes

My cookies took close to 16 minutes to bake completely.[br][br]White chocolate chips and vanilla chips each work really well with this recipe.

White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies fit well in cookie tins if you want to ship them to friends or family.

It’s time to taste a bite of White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies.

Don’t White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies look terrific?

You may also enjoy these delicious recipes!

White Chocolate Cranberry Cheesecake Cookies

White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Blondies

Cranberry Nut Vanilla Chip Bars