It is hard to resist the combination of orange flavors, creamy white chocolate chips, and tart dried cranberries in a delicious cookie.. These White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are the perfect cookie recipe to start off the holiday season.
❤️ Why you'll love it
Sweet and Tart Flavors: the combination of sweet white chocolate and tart dried cranberries are perfectly balanced with addition of orange zest.
Chewy centers: while the outside edges are golden brown and crispy, as you bite into these cranberry cookies, you get a delicious chew that is hard to resist!
Holiday cookie tray: these are the perfect holiday cookie to add to variety your cookie tray!
🥘 Ingredients
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All-purpose flour
Unsalted butter
Large eggs
Large orange: you will use the zest only for the cookie.
White chocolate chips: feel free to use the white chocolate chunks if you like bigger bites of white chocolate.
Dried cranberries
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together all purpose flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In another large bowl, using an electric mixer on low speed, mix butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until creamy.
- Add egg and orange zest and mix until combined.
- Gradually add dry ingredients to egg mixture, mixing on low speed until combined.
- Using a wooden spoon, stir in white chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
- With a tablespoon cookie scoop, drop onto prepared baking sheets.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown and center of cookie is no longer wet.
- Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes. Using a cookie spatula, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Store baked cookies in an airtight container.
🥄 Equipment
Large baking sheets
Parchment Paper
Large mixing bowl (2)
Microplane zester: used to easily remove the zest from the orange
Electric mixer
Wooden spoon
Tablespoon Cookie scoop
Cookie spatular
Wire rack
🥫Storage
Room temperature: store in an airtight container up to 5 days.
Freezer: baked or frozen dough balls can be stored in a freezer safe container up to 3 months. (see tips for how to freeze cookie dough balls)
To bake frozen dough balls: place in 350 degree preheated oven and bake for 10 - 13 minutes (allowing a little extra time for frozen dough).
📖 Variations
- Add your favorite chopped nut to the cookie for added crunch. Great nuts to use would be almonds, pecans, macadamia, or walnuts.
- Substitute lemon or lime zest for the orange zest.
- Stir in ½ cup rolled oats for more texture.
💭 Tips
- Be sure to use room temperature butter and eggs when making these cookies to prevent curdling of the ingredients.
- Freeze the cookie dough balls to bake later, place dough balls on a lined baking sheet then place in the freezer until frozen solid, transfer to an airtight container until ready to bake.
🙋 FAQ's
Can I use fresh cranberries instead of dried cranberries?
Using fresh cranberries in this recipe would cause a change in the structure of the cookie dough as fresh cranberries are nearly 90% water.
Can I use dark chocolate instead of white chocolate chips?
Yes! Dark chocolate pairs wonderfully with cranberries and orange flavors, giving the cookies a less sweet and different flavor profile .
📚 Related Recipes
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Start your day with one of these delicious Cranberry Chocolate Chip Muffins warm from the oven.
Cranberry Orange Sweet Rolls are a perfect weekend treat.
The combination of cranberries and cinnamon chips are delicious in these Pumpkin Cranberry Chip Muffins.
These Pistachio Muffins with Dried Cherries are another sweet tart treat you will love.
🍽 Serve with..
Serve cookies with a cup of coffee, tea, or glass of cold milk. They are also delicious with a scoop of vanilla ice cream sandwiched between them.
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📖 Recipe
White Chocolate Orange Cranberry Cookies
Equipment
- Microplane zester , used to easily remove the zest from the orange
- Wooden spoon
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Ingredients
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter , room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar , packed
- 1 large egg , room temperature
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup dried cranberries , chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together all purpose flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In another large bowl, using an electric mixer on low speed, mix butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until creamy.
- Add egg and orange zest and mix until combined.
- Gradually add dry ingredients to egg mixture, mixing on low speed until combined.
- Using a wooden spoon, stir in white chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
- With a tablespoon cookie scoop, drop onto prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown and center of cookie is no longer wet.
- Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes. Using a cookie spatula, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Store baked cookies in an airtight container.
Rachel Ring says
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Gingered Whisk says
Thank you so much for the delicious cookies!! Cranberry and orange is one of my favorites, and I loved the white chocolate chips in there, too! I have most definitely eaten them all, LOL! They were great!