Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Oatmeal Cookies with White Chocolate and Dried Cranberries



During the holidays I have to make my oatmeal cookies with white chocolate and dried cranberries. It is a must! They are the perfect cookie for this time of year! The dried cranberries are nice and sweet and go perfectly with the white chocolate chunks. And of course the oatmeal background is fabulous! I included these cookies in my goodie bags. Here is the recipe! The recipe below makes about 2 1/2 dozen. If you need more, go ahead and double it, I did and they turned out great! Enjoy!







Oatmeal White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies

½ c. brown sugar
1/2 c. white sugar
1/2 cup softened unsalted butter
1 egg
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/4 tsp. Salt
1/2 tsp. Baking powder
1/2 tsp. Baking soda
1 1/4 c. flour
1 1/4 c. oats
1 cup of dried cranberries-I use Craisins
White chocolate- I chop up good white chocolate, but you can use white chocolate chips too! I use about 1 cup or so. Use more if you like!

In a mixer, beat butter and sugars until smooth. Mix in eggs, and vanilla. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Mix in slowly to wet ingredients. Add your oats, Craisins, and white chocolate.

Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes! Don’t let them get too done…they are better when they are soft!

36 comments:

  1. Love oatmeal cookies! I am making some this week! Maybe I will toss in some white chocolate and cranberries!

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  2. Great minds! I posted a cranberry-white choc cookie recipe today too :) I love your version with the oatmeal, I bet they're delicious!!

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  3. Oh my gosh, these look amazing! I love a cookie that seems like it is tailor-made for this time of year -- and this is one of those cookies. It makes me want to break out into "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree!" My hubby, who doesn't eat chocolate, will love these!

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  4. It is cookie mania in your house!! I'm sure you are the most popular girl on the block. :)

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  5. These look to die for!! Happy 6 months!

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  6. You two are the cutest couple! Love cranberries - I bet those taste great. You do a really good job on all these cookies and your friends are lucky! Happy December!

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  7. I love this time of year cus you get to bake cookies and eat them! I love your cookies..they look so good!

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  8. My sister just made oatmeal crasin cookies; adding the white chocolate is a fantastic idea. I will be making these soon.

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  9. These cookies are so good. I love them- absolutely perfect for Christmas time!

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  10. You can't go wrong with white chocolate and craisins! I make a similar cookie to this one all the time. Yours look fantastic!

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  11. Anonymous11:23 AM

    first, congratulations for getting your new cam... looking forward to your new pics, and the views were just lovely... next, i love your cookie collections, they all look and sound great, esp this oatmeal w/ white choc & dried cranberries, mmm... and i just adore your pic, the apron's so cute... and btw, you and josh look great together.... :)

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  12. i was TOTALLY thinking of these the other day :) except with dried cherries!!

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  13. These look super good and I still have dried cranberries in my pantry. Gee.........

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  14. These sound like such a delicious "hearty" cookie! I love the white chocolate and cranberry combo! Sounds so good!

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  15. It's so awesome you get adverts on your blog now!

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  16. The pictures really look great! I'm jealous of the new camera. I can't wait to try these. I just had a white chocolate cranberry cookie the other day that was missing something. I think the oatmeal will solve the problem!

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  17. Yowza! I'll have to make those for my dad - oatmeal raisin are his favorite but I have dried cherries that I can use.

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  18. I know grumpy would like these! He loves anything with white chocolate!

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  19. I make these all of the time, aren't they fantastic? Love them.

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  20. I too made oatmeal cookies minus chocolates .. looks yummm maria

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  21. They look totally scrummy, great flavor combination.

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  22. Those look so good! Yum!!!!!

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  23. I'm not in love with either cranberry or white chocoalte... until you put them together. Your cookies sound wonderful.

    They're great for Christmas too. Nice work!

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  24. I love white chocolate! They're perfect in cookies (I've been gorging on "reverse" chocolate chip cookies myself :)

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  25. these are some of my favorites! i make a similar recipe year round :)

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  26. These sound like perfect combo of flavors and textures! I need to make these!!!

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  27. Looks fantastic,very yum and festive :-)

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  28. Oh wow these are gorgeous! I wish you would join us for the Cooking With Alicia & Annie blog event, I'd love to see what you come up with!

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  29. have you had the cranberry bliss bars at starbucks or barnes & noble? they're enough to convince me that cranberries and white chocolate belong together. awesome cookies, maria. :)

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  30. Really - who can go wrong with dried cranberries and white chocolate? Look sgreat!

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  31. I love oatmeal cookies with white chocolate!

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  32. These cookies look perfect! I love oatmeal in anything!

    cheers,

    Rosa

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  33. I love the festive colour of the cranberries. With the temperatures dipping well below zero your post on ice cream was just making me...well cold. Brrr. I am sure it was delicious though but this post reminds me of warm kitchens and homey goodness:D

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  34. I have a recipe similar to this one and I haven't baked it yet. I'm feeling a little bad about that and now that I've seen yours, I feel the need to get back in the kitchen. White chocolate and cranberries are a great mix!

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  35. These are delish! I want to make another batch but I know I'll wind up eating at least 1/2 of them by myself so do you know how I can make it lighter? Can I subsitute some of the butter with yogurt or applesauce and if so, how? thanks
    crystalboom at hotmail dot com

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