Cranberry Almond White Chocolate Cookies

Teresa Ambra

Cranberry Almond White Chocolate Cookies will blow you away. These amazing cookies start from a favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, but include White Chocolate Chips, chopped almonds and dried cranberries instead. They are rich, decadent and so wonderful you won't be able to stop at just one! Perfect for tailgating or holiday parties, but so good you'll want to make them for everyday activities.

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 15

Total Time 30

Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings

Calories 245 kcal

Equipment

3 18x26" cookie sheet pans
1 large mixing bowl
1 electric mixer
1 wooden spoon
1 spatula
1 1/4 cup cookie scoop
1 nut chopper to finely dice whole almonds
measuring cups
measuring spoons
2 wire cooling racks

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups unsalted butter softened (3 sticks)
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups light brown sugar packed
1 tbsp. vanilla extract (tablespoon NOT teaspoon)
2 large eggs
4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (Bleached flour toughens baked goods)
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. sea salt
2 cups dried cranberries
11.5 oz. pkg. white chocolate chips NOT vanilla chips or premiere white baking chips
1 cup almonds finely chopped

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°.
Mix butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl with electric beaters until smooth.
Stir in flour, white chocolate chips, dried cranberries and almonds.
Stir thoroughly; this may take 4-5 minutes.
With a large cookie scoop, scoop cookie dough and pack it into the cookie scoop before leveling it off.
Place onto ungreased cookie sheets approximately 3-inches apart.
Bake 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
Rotate cookies on racks every seven to eight minutes while baking.
Cool cookies about 5 minutes on cookie sheets before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

Notes

NOTE: My cookies took about 18 minutes to bake completely.

NOTE: You will probably need to stir the cookie dough about 5 minutes to get all the flour worked into it.

NOTE: Because this recipe uses so much flour, I usually keep stirring after the flour has been worked in so that the dough is no longer crumbly. I continue stirring until the dough starts adhering together in large clumps.

NOTE: If the dough crumbles when you place it on the cookie sheet, the dough either isn’t stirred well enough or the dough is not packed into the cookie scoop firmly enough.

Nutrition

Calories: 245kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 3gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 130mgPotassium: 81mgFiber: 1gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 229IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 38mgIron: 1mg

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