Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
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You will love the taste of this classic combination of cranberry and white chocolate. What could be more seasonal than lovely sweet and tart, bright red dried cranberries? Your kitchen will smell like heaven, and paired with smooth, sweet, white chocolate and the softest most chewy cookie dough to date, my Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookie is a new classic.
I know we all love a bakery style chocolate chip cookie and this one really raises the bar. These bright flavors are game changing and the texture of this cookie is like nothing else. Made with a combination of rich brown sugar, white sugar, just one egg and lots of butter, this cookie has all the chew you love. My Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies remain doughy and thick even after baking, which is pretty special if you ask me.
This year, instead of going to the store to buy your usual cookies, bake my super star cookies instead. You can make my cookie dough well in advance, it will happily sit in the fridge overnight. You can then bake them off at your leisure. Better yet, I love to freeze some of this dough, so anytime I need a chewy Cranberry and White Chocolate Chip Cookie it is truly just 10 minutes away!
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- ¾ cup 6oz/180g) butter ,room temperature
- ½ cup (3oz/90g) brown sugar
- ½ cup (4oz/120g) white sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 2 cups (10oz/300g) flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (5oz/150g) dried cranberries
- 1 cup (6oz/180g) white chocolate chips
- In a large bowl cream together the butter, brown sugar & white sugar with a large whisk or electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Add the vanilla and egg then mix combine.
- In another medium bowl combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet until a soft dough has formed.
- Stir in the cranberries and white chocolate chip by hand.
- Refrigerate the cookie dough for a minimum of 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350oF (180oC) and line two baking sheets parchment paper.
- Remove chilled dough from fridge and roll into tablespoon-sized balls. Place onto the cookie sheets about 1 1/2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Cookies may appear slightly undone, but do not over-bake them!
- Allow cookies to set on the baking sheets for about 10 minutes or so before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Hi, Gemma. These look delicious. I have a Q about a recipe I’ve just made – almond biscuits (in the British sense) using creaming method then adding egg, flour and ground almonds. Can I freeze the dough? Also, how long can I keep the dough in the fridge? Thanks for advice.
Hi Sally,
I frequently freeze cookie dough, and when I worked in restaurant kitchens we almost always made big batches, rolled into sausage portions, wrapped in cling wrap,so that they could be removed, sliced and baked fresh.
I have not done this with this particular recipe, but I cannot see a good reason not to do it.
I hope it helps, you can show us the results!
Gemma 🙂
Hi Gemma
I made them with dark chocolate and raisins and they were delicious
thank you for the recipe
Noemie
Delighted to hear that, Noemie 🙂
Gemma.
Hi Gemma, Do you think I could use fresh cooked cranberries in the white choc.cranberry cookies,and if so would I boil then bake the cranberries
Thank You,
Maureen Cabasino Wareham
Hi Maureen,
I think you would need to dry the cranberries. Dried cranberries are very useful, for all sorts of things, really adding a great pop of flavor to cookies, granola, Greek yogurt etc.
You will need to pop them, then dry them in the oven. The Spruce have a great article on their website about this, do take a look (https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-dry-cranberries-in-oven-1327534), this is what I would do, then you can have them for months too, great idea, thank you for reminding me,
Gemma 🙂