Healthy Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

These healthy Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are the ultimate holiday cookies and the best gift idea! Loaded with dried cranberries and covered with white chocolate, they make a healthy sweet treat. What’s more? You will get about 30 cookies within an hour!

I could not let this Christmas time pass without making traditional holiday cookies. Believe me when I say that this cookie recipe adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh is the ultimate one to keep and make during the magical Christmas time! Well, I still love my Christmas Meringue Spheres!

To tell the truth, I have never experimented with edible gift ideas; however, this holiday season, I am up to this. Just look at Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies packed into small plastic bags * and tied with a tartan ribbon. Do you like this gift idea?

I am writing this post with a cookie in my hand. Last night, I made these oatmeal cranberry cookies and could not wait for the chocolate to set. I picked one and ate. Today, I am afraid of counting how many cookies I have already eaten! Attention: these cookies are super addictive!

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• Why healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies recipe works
• How to make healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies step by step
• Expert tips
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Why healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies recipe works

1. Wholemeal flour * combined with oats brings nutrients and texture to cookies.
2. Tart cranberries beautifully pair with white chocolate.
3. Replacing almonds with other nuts such as hazelnuts, pistachios, pecans, and switching dried cranberries for dried cherries open vast possibilities to customize these cookies.
4. If you are not fun of white chocolate, please, go for dark or milk chocolate.
5. These cookies are a treasure during holidays: they make a great edible gift! Just pack cookies into small plastic bags * tied with a tartan ribbon. You might consider arranging these sweet treats in a pretty gift box layered with a paper shred filler * and tied with a festive ribbon *.
6. Following this easy recipe, you will make a batch of cookies within one hour.

How to make healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies step by step

To roast almonds, heat oven to 355 F/180 C. Place whole nuts on a baking sheet and roast for 10 minutes. Remove almonds from the oven and let cool. Increase the temperature of the oven to 375 F/190 C. Prepare two baking sheets covered with the parchment paper *.

To make the cookie dough, chop dried cranberries in half and soak in orange juice. Chop roasted nuts into big enough pieces (1/3 inches/0.8 cm).

In a separate bowl, mix almonds, all-purpose flour, wholemeal flour *, oats, salt, and set aside. Place butter cut into big pieces, sugar, and orange zest in the bowl of a stand mixer * (photo 1) and mix on the medium speed for two minutes (photo 2).

Add the almonds/flour dry mixture to the butter/sugar preparation and mix on the low speed, just to combine (photo 3). Add the drained cranberries and mix for a few seconds (photo 4).

Bring the ready cookie dough on the floured surface of a table and make a ball with hands. You might need to add some flour to facilitate the work with the dough.

Take half of the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin * to reach the thickness of1/5 inches/0.5 cm. Cut the dough into rounds, using a round cookie cutter * of 2.5 inches/7 cm in diameter (photo 5).

Arrange unbaked cookies on baking sheets with the parchment and bake for 18 minutes (photo 6). Finish the remaining dough in the same way.

Remove ready cookies from the oven and let cool (photo 7). To decorate cookies, melt white chocolate on a bain-marie. Pour one tablespoon of melted chocolate on top of each cookie and spread with the back of a spoon (photo 8). Leave cookies for about one hour at the room temperature for the chocolate to set down.

Expert tips

1. Beat butter, sugar, and orange zest with an electric mixer * and then mix the dough in a bowl, using a rubber spatula * if you do not have a stand mixer *. It works!
2. Use dried cherries instead of dried cranberries.
3. Replace almonds with other nuts such as hazelnuts, pistachios, or pecans.
4. Be sure to check this post about how to melt chocolate.
5. Cover cookies with melted dark or milk chocolate if you prefer.
6. Let the chocolate set down for a least one hour before packing cookies.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is wholemeal flour?

Wholemeal four is flour sifted through screens with some amount of bran added back to the meal. It has brown color and coarse texture compared with white flour. Wholemeal flour * is healthy and nutritious due to the high amount of dietary fiber. This type of meal is often called “Irish-style flour” that is used to make Irish soda bread.

Can you substitute wholemeal flour with all-purpose flour?

You can replace some wholemeal flour * with white flour, but you will reduce the health benefits of your baking goods. If you substitute whole wheat for all-purpose flour, you will limit yourself with fiber and other nutrients containing in the wholemeal flour *.

How can you make the cookies gluten-free?

To make a gluten-free version of cookies, use gluten-free old fashioned rolled oats * and a gluten-free flour blend.

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The recipe was adapted from https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/. It was originally published in December 2018. The recipe has been revised to include improved content and photos. All posted pictures are mine.