Easy Cookies with White Chocolate and Cranberries
Anything with cranberries and white chocolate is automatically awesome for me, so it’s no wonder I love these super soft, buttery cookies with tender, pillowy centers. They have slightly chewy edges and are bursting with texture in every bite between the chewy and tart-yet-sweet dried cranberries and the sweet white chocolate chips. White chocolate chip cranberry cookies are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges because everyone seems to love them. They’re what I’m making for an upcoming cookie exchange I’m a part of. I’m going to wrap the baked white chocolate cranberry chip cookies up in Glad Cling Wrap Plastic Wrap that I bought at Walmart, pass them out, but also stash a few just for myself.
Ingredients You’ll Need
To make the dried cranberry white chocolate chip cookies, you’ll need:
Unsalted butter Granulated sugar Light brown sugar Egg Cream Vanilla extract All-purpose flour Baking soda Salt Dried cranberries White chocolate chips
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How to Make Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies
This white chocolate cranberry chip cookie recipe is so simple to make! Here’s an overview of the recipe:
Recipe Variations to Try
This cranberry white chocolate chip cookie recipe is easy to customize with additional mix-ins or by swapping around some of the ingredients. Here are some of my favorite variations of this easy cookie recipe:
Add orange zest: To add a slight orange flavor to these cookies, add 1 teaspoon orange zest to the cookie dough. Use flavored dried cranberries: I used Trader Joe’s orange-scented cranberries to add orange flavor to the dough, but if you don’t have one near you I know Ocean Spray and many other brands make some as well. Use a different dried fruit: These cookies can be made with pretty much any dried fruit! Any larger pieces of dried fruit will need to be chopped finely before adding to the dough. Swap out the white chocolate chips: For a different flavor profile, you can replace the white chocolate chips with semi-sweet, dark, or milk chocolate chips. Add nuts: Chopped walnuts or pecans would pair nicely with the white chocolate and dried cranberries. Feel free to add in some nuts, noting that you can only use 2 cups of mix-ins total with this recipe!
More Dried Cranberry Desserts:
Cranberry Bliss Bars {Starbucks Copycat Recipe} – They taste just like the real thing and you can make them at home, year-round! Think of all the $ you’ll save. Spot-on, easy recipe! Tried this recipe? Leave a review! Consider leaving a 5 star rating if you’ve made and loved one of my recipes! Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cake – The flavors of Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars in a soft, easy, no-mixer cake! Cranberry Chocolate Chip Blondies – Super soft, buttery bars packed with chewy cranberries! And there’s a chocolate overload in every bite! Cranberry Bliss Seven Layer Bars — A marriage of the famous Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars with Seven Layer Bars!! White chocolate, cranberries, coconut, and so good! Fast and super easy!! The Easiest Foolproof Fudge Recipe — Look no further than this recipe for the EASIEST and most FOOLPROOF fudge that takes less than 3 minutes to make!! Customize it with your favorite add-ins like cranberries and walnuts! Great for gifts and cookie exchanges!! This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Glad & Hidden Valley Ranch. The opinions and text are all mine.
