Soft and chewy cookies loaded with the goodness of old-fashioned rolled oats and the sweetness of dried cranberries and white chocolate chips.
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❤️ Why you’ll love this recipe
- Not the normal cookie. If you like chocolate chip cookies but you’re looking for something that’s more festive, you have found your perfect Christmas cookie.
- Updated classic. We are taking the warm and cozy oatmeal cookie recipe we all know and love and turning it into a chocolate cranberry oatmeal treat. It’s the perfect combination of old-fashioned and a little bit modern.
- And they’re delicious! Cranberry and chocolate are a surprisingly perfect mix with oatmeal.
🧂 Ingredients
This is an overview of the ingredients. You’ll find the full measurements and instructions in the printable recipe at the bottom of the page.
You’ll need the following for these chewy cookies:
- butter, at room temperature
- granulated sugar
- brown sugar
- 1 egg
- flour
- baking soda
- baking powder
- old-fashioned oats (not quick or instant)
- white chocolate chips
- dried cranberries
🥣 Equipment
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- baking sheet
- parchment
- electric mixer
🍴Instructions
Step One: make the dough
Before you get started, preheat your oven to 350. Get two baking sheets ready either by lining them with parchment paper or spraying with baking spray.
This recipe begins by beating the butter and sugars with the egg until they are light and fluffy. If you have one, it’s easier to do this in the bowl of a stand mixer. If not, a hand mixer works perfectly fine and I typically just use that!
In a separate mixing bowl, whisk the dry ingredients: the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Then, with the mixer on low, add these dry ingredients to the butter mixture, one cup at a time. You don’t want to over mix the dough, just mix until it’s combined.
Now for the fun part! Add the oats, cranberry, and white chocolate chips and stir in. If you’re strong, do it by hand. Otherwise, use the mixer set on low or stir.
Step Two: shape and bake
Now we scoop! I do a smaller cookie that’s one tablespoon in size. For a bigger, bakery-style cookie, two tablespoons is a lovely size.
For a slightly flatter cookie, I press them down gently so they are discs, rather than balls. But if you like them very thick and rounded, simply leave them how they are.
Also, feel free to press extra cranberries or chocolate chips on top so that they look extra beautiful.
Bake them in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes, if doing tablespoon size, or 11-13 if doing the larger size. The bottoms should be light brown and the edges slightly golden. This will give you a nice soft cookie. Adjust the baking time if you prefer them slightly crisper.
Transfer to a wire rack and let them cool. Then pile up on a plate and gobble them up!
🥫 Storage instructions
The easiest way to make cookies ahead of time is to bake as directed, let them completely cool and then freeze them. When you’re ready to eat, just defrost them on the counter for a few minutes. (It’s a great way to have your own secret cookie stash!)
If you want to be able to make the dough ahead of time and fresh-bake the cookies right before serving, that works too.
The best way to do it is to scoop out the cookies and place them on a baking sheet. They can be touching. Freeze them for an hour or so, then put them all in a freezer bag or vacuum seal them.
When it’s time to bake, you’ll have individual little balls of dough. Just add a minute or two to the baking time.
🔍 FAQs
Either your butter was too soft or your baking soda has expired.
Your butter wasn’t soft enough or you added too much flour. Just scoop it normally, don’t pack it in!
I wouldn’t recommend it. They’re bitter and have a lot of moisture. It would be like using grapes in a cookie recipe with raisins. Just wrong! 😊
👩🏻🍳 Expert tips
Try some of these variations:
- Substitute dark chocolate chips or chunks for all or part of the white chocolate
- Add one teaspoon of vanilla extract with the egg
- Add one teaspoon of orange zest with the cranberries and white chocolate
- Add crushed walnuts or pecans
- Go in a whole different direction and make caramel pretzel chocolate chunk cookies.
📘 Related Recipes
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🍽 Serve it with
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- Cast Iron Skillet Brussels Sprouts
- White Cheddar Scalloped Potatoes
📖 Here’s the recipe
Oatmeal White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Equipment
- Baking Sheet
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter at room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup old fashioned oats not quick or instant
- ¾ cup white chocolate chips
- ¾ cup dried cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees with the rack in the center. Prepare two baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper or spraying with non-stick spray.
- Beat the butter, sugars, and egg in a large bowl using an electric mixer, on medium, about 3-5 minutes, until smooth and slightly fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and mix thoroughly. Add to the butter & sugar mixture one cup at a time, blending on low. Stir just until the dry ingredients are mixed in, being careful not to over mix. Add the oats, white chocolate chips, and dried cranberries and mix on low until just combined.
- Scoop dough by tablespoon-sized scoops and place on preparing baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Press the cookie dough down slightly to flatten into discs. (If you prefer very thick, rounded cookies, you can skip the flattening step!)
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden brown on the edges. Cool on wire rack. Cookies will stay fresh, tightly covered, for about 3 days at room temperature.
This recipe is easy to make and delicious! They seem to be even better the next day. I made these cookies yesterday intending to give them to neighbors, but they are now almost gone, so I am making another batch. A very good choice any time of year, but really perfect for Christmas or Valentine’s Day.
The recipe has no ingredient listing nor has it amounts… incomplete recipe… How can I possibly rate it??
hi elke, this is an error that happened to some of my recipes! it’s listed in the body of the post itself but somehow disappeared from the recipe version! i’m fixing it now.
Can fresh cranberries be used in these cookies?
i haven’t tried i: i think they would very tart in there! craisins have a lot of sugar added