Soft Chewy White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
Deliciously soft chewy white chocolate oatmeal cranberry cookies with all the flavors perfect for the Christmas holiday season.
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If you’re looking for the perfect holiday cookie to bake, you can’t go wrong with this recipe.
It includes the seasonal favorite flavors of cranberries paired with white chocolate, plus the comforting addition of oatmeal to make this a sweet treat that everyone will enjoy.
The dried cranberries and white chocolate chips give a festive touch to these cookies making them perfect for your Christmas dessert table, holiday snack jar, or cookie exchange. And the best part is that the recipe for these cranberry white chocolate oatmeal cookies is straightforward.
There's no refrigeration of the dough to add to the waiting time to get these beauties into the oven. 
AND, they only take about 7 minutes to bake. But keep in mind that every oven is a little different.
So as with any baking, you want to keep an eye on them.
Once the edges start to brown, you’ll want to pull them out of the oven and get them off of the hot cookie sheet so that they can cool. This recipe makes about 3 dozen 2” cookies.
Pro-Tip For Baking These Oatmeal Cookies
If you don’t want to bake that many cookies, you can easily cut this recipe in half. The other alternative is to make all the cookies and gift some to friends or co-workers.
No one can refuse delicious homemade cookies!
And really, why would you?
Ingredients Needed For Cranberry White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
- salted butter
- light brown sugar
- white sugar
- flour
- quick oats
- salt
- baking soda
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- white chocolate chips
- dried cranberries
Tools Needed For Baking
Mixing bowls are perfect for making recipes like this one that calls for more than one bowl with varied sizes. Glass bowls like these or stainless steel bowls like these are perfect.
Mixer
You can use a stand mixer like my favorite one, or a hand mixer like this one for this cookie recipe.
Spatula
You use wooden spoons or a spatula for folding in the chocolate chips and cranberries. Cookie Scoop This helps to make cookies that are even in shape and form.
How To Make Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
I always start by preheating the oven, before I get going and forget. Have you ever started cooking, go to put food in the oven, only to realize that it was cold?? No?
Just me?
Okay, well then just preheat your oven to 375℉ so that is not your story for this recipe either.
Then, in a large bowl, combine the butter and sugars and stir until creamy and well combined.
In a separate medium bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking soda, and oats and stir until all of that is well combined. This is where it all comes together.
You add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix everything up until it is mixed well!
Then add in your eggs and vanilla, and mix that good as well. Fold in white chocolate chips and cranberries, making sure to over-mix things.
Using a small cookie scooper or dropping the dough with a spoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet. 
Bake the cookies for 7 minutes, or until the edges start to brown. They may not seem done, but the edges browning indicate that they are and will make sure that the centers are nice and chewy. Yum!
Let your cookies cool for a few minutes and then transfer them to a rack to finish cooling.
White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are a part of the Houseful of Cookies Virtual Cookie Hop. So make sure to keep on scrolling for more delicious cookie recipes. 
White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
Deliciously chewy white chocolate oatmeal cranberry cookies with all the flavors perfect for the Christmas holiday season.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks salted butter, softened to room temp
- 1 C packed light brown sugar
- ½ C white sugar
- 2 C all-purpose flour
- 3/4 C quick oats
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ of an 11.5oz bag white chocolate chips
- ⅔ C dried cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375℉
- In a large bowl, combine butter and sugars and stir until creamy and well combined.
- In a separate medium bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda, and oats and stir until well combined.
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix until well incorporated.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
- Fold in chocolate chips and cranberries.
- Use a small cookie scooper or drop with a spoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 7 minutes, or until edges start to brown.
- Let cool for a few minutes then transfer to a rack to finish cooling.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 36 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 143Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 25mgSodium: 118mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 0gSugar: 12gProtein: 2g
Houseful of Cookies Virtual Cookie Hop
Houseful of Cookies is an annual, virtual cookie hop, hosted by Natasha Nicholes of Houseful of Nicholes.
She really likes playing on the “Houseful” theme when there is more than one of something, and since there's more than one cookie…here we are.
Each year, she gathers a bunch of us from the internet to bake up our epic cookie creations and share them with all of you! It's a fun time, and we all have dealt with butter, flour, and various flavorings to bring you our goodies each year.
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OMG!! These are my favorite cookies EVER!!!!!!!!!!
The oatmeal in these makes the texture so interesting!
They turned out delicious and absolutely gorgeous! Loved this recipe, it’s a keeper.
Love the combination of white chocolate and cranberry this time of the year! The cookies look delicious!
These cookies look so good!! Perfect for a cookie exchange party!!
These cookies look so good!! Perfect for a cookie exchange party!!