white chocolate cranberry cookies
A friend asked for a white chocolate cranberry cookie recipe. I remembered a great one from years back. Here’s one with cherries but cranberries can be used as can any dried fruit. Have fun!
white chocolate cherry cookie
Yield: 24/2.25 oz
.5 cup white chocolate chips
1.5 cups dried cherries
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1.5. cups a.p. flour
3 cups oats
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup butter
After assembling all the ingredients at room temperature, sift the flour, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, salt and baking powder. Combine the white chocolate chips and dried cherries. Begin creaming the butter, scraping the sides of the mixer down often during mixing. Add the sugar. Scrape the sides of the mixer. Add the eggs, one at a time. Scrape the sides of the mixer down. Add the vanilla. Add the dry flour mixture on slow speed. Before all the dry mixture is incorporated, add the chocolate and cherry mixture. Continue to mix until all the flour is absorbed. Remove from the mix from the mixer and wrap in plastic. Reserve in the cooler for 1/2 hour. Divide in 24 pieces(2.25 oz each). Place on parchment lined half sheet leaving space between them. Bake at 325°F for about 10 minutes. Let cookies cool before removing from pan.
