Healthy Diet

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

December 30, 2022

Created On: December 29, 2022 | By Debbie | 15 Comments

These chewy white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies with golden brown crispy edges are simply what you wanted after a protracted day. Use dairy free white chocolate to make these vegan and allergy pleasant.

As a dietitian, I’m at all times speaking about consuming extra fruit and veggies – however the occasional cookie suits right into a nutritious diet too! Baking cookies is a method that I like to decompress after a protracted day/week and I’ve included a couple of of my favourite cookie recipes on the weblog earlier than like these double chocolate cookies, peanut butter cookies, and these coconut apricot cookies.

It was about time that I shared a basic oatmeal cookie and I hope that you simply love these white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies as a lot as I do! We traveled to see household over the Christmas vacation and I introduced alongside a few of these cookies and so they have been an enormous hit. 🙂

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

These oatmeal cookies could also be vegan, however you’d by no means guess it! They style simply as scrumptious as a standard oatmeal cookie made with butter and eggs. No vegan? Simply use common butter – it really works too!
Loaded with cranberries, oats, and chocolate chips so each chunk has numerous add-ins.
Makes a smaller batch of about 13 cookies – excellent for small households like ours! Be at liberty to double or triple the recipe in the event you’d like.
This recipe is vegan, egg free, and dairy free.

Components You’ll Want

oatmeal cookie ingredients in small bowls with labels.

All Function Flour: use all function flour for these cookies. You need to use entire wheat all function flour or a mixture of entire wheat and all function.
Brown Sugar & Granulated Sugar: utilizing a mixture of each sugars helps create a cookie with a chewy middle and crisp edges.
Vegan Butter: Be sure to make use of a vegan butter that is available in stick like dairy butter slightly than a selection in a bathtub. The vegan butters that are available a bathtub/container create a cookie that spreads out too skinny when baking. You need to use common dairy butter too in the event you don’t have to make these vegan.
Oats: Use quaint rolled oats for these cookies for finest outcomes.
Cranberries: Use dried cranberries for these cookies.
White Chocolate Chips: If you wish to make these vegan, search for a dairy free model of white chocolate chips. I like those from the model Take pleasure in Life.

See recipe card beneath for a full record of elements and measurements.

Variations

Add nuts: Oatmeal cookies are scrumptious with nuts in them. My solutions can be walnuts or pecans.
Add a unique dried fruit: strive including raisins or dried blueberries as a substitute of cranberries.
Use chocolate chips or mini chips: You too can add common semi candy chocolate chips to those cookies as a substitute of white chocolate in the event you desire. Mini chocolate chips (white or common) work nice in these!

Step by Step

butter and sugars creamed together in mixing bowl.

Step One: Cream collectively the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Add the milk and vanilla and blend.

whisk together dry ingredients in a small mixing bowl.

Step Two: Add the dry elements to a separate small mixing bowl and whisk to mix. Steadily add to the mixer with the butter and sugar.

cookie dough with cranberries and white chocolate chips in mixing bowl.

Step Three: Combine till dough varieties. Add the oats, white chocolate chips, and dried cranberries. Combine simply to distribute via the dough. Chill dough for half-hour.

spooned cookie dough on baking sheet before baking.

Step 4: Add dough by heaping tablespoons onto a baking sheet and bake for 12-14 minutes or till golden brown.

Professional Suggestions

Measure your flour accurately: Measure your flour by scooping it out of the bag/container into the measuring cup after which leveling with a flat edge. When you use the measuring scoop to spoon the flour out of the bag, it packs it into the cup which might result in dry muffins. Nobody needs these!
Softening the butter: Enable butter to melt on the counter in order that it makes an indent when gently pressed together with your finger. Letting the butter soften somewhat makes it simpler to combine with the sugars in step one and it fluffs higher.
Chilling the dough: I’ve made this recipe each with chilling time and with out. The cookies nonetheless bake nicely with no chilling time however unfold somewhat skinny. If you need a thick and chewy cookie like within the images, chill the dough for half-hour earlier than baking.
Need completely spherical cookies? Use a biscuit cutter or the mouth of a large jar that’s bigger in diameter than your cookies. (You don’t need to truly minimize the sides.) Reshape the cookies into an ideal circle by inserting the cutter across the cookie and utilizing a circling movement to reshape it. Be sure to do it when they’re nonetheless heat instantly after pulling them out of the oven.

close up of one white chocolate oatmeal cookie that has been broken in half.

Recipe FAQs

Can I freeze these cookies?

Sure, you possibly can both freeze the dough so you possibly can thaw and bake these cookies later or you possibly can freeze the cookies after baking. Retailer baked cookies in an hermetic container or bag within the freezer for as much as 3 months.

Can I add recent cranberries as a substitute of dried cranberries?

I might not suggest utilizing recent cranberries for these cookies. Recent cranberries are very tart and wouldn’t work nicely as a alternative for dried cranberries.

How wholesome are oatmeal cookies?

Including oats to cookies does provide some vitamins like additional fiber. Nevertheless, oatmeal cookies do have fairly a little bit of sugar, so take pleasure in sparsely.

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