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Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

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These Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies are the ultimate holiday cookies and the best gift idea! Loaded with dried cranberries and covered with white chocolate, these chewy cookies are great for the holidays. What’s more? You will get about 30 cookies within an hour!

Stacked Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies with dried berries on background

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?

Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies packed into small plastic bags and tied with a tartan ribbon

I am writing this post with a cookie in my hand. Last night, I made Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal 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!

Why Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies Recipe Works

Following this easy recipe you will make a batch of cookies within one hour.
Replacing almonds with other nuts such as hazelnuts, pistachios, pecans and switching dried cranberries for dried cherries open huge possibilities to customize these cookies.
If you are not fun of white chocolate, just go for dark or milk chocolate.
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 to arrange these sweet treats in a pretty gift box layered with a paper shred filler * and tied with a festive ribbon *.

Three Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies stacked together and packed cookies on background

How to Make Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal 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 (0.5-1 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).

Photo 1: Butter cubes, sugar and orange zest in the bowl of a stand mixer Photo 2: Butter/sugar/zest mixture in the bowl of a stand mixer — **PHOTO 1 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.

Photo 3: Half way ready cookie dough in the bowl of a stand mixer Photo 4: Ready cookie dough in the bowl of a stand mixer — **PHOTO 3 PHOTO 4**

Take half of the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin * to reach the thickness of 0.5 cm. Cut the dough into rounds, using a round cookie cutter * of 2.5 inch / 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.

Photo 5: Rolled cookie dough that cut with a cookie cutter Photo 6: Unbaked cookies on the parchment paper — **PHOTO 5 PHOTO 6**

Remove ready cookies from the oven and let cool (photo 7). To decorate cookies, melt white chocolate on a bain marie. Pour about one tablespoon of the 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.

Photo 7: Baked cookies on the parchment Photo 8: Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies topped with white chocolate on the parchment — **PHOTO 7 PHOTO 8**

Expert Tips to Make Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

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!
Use dried cherries instead of dried cranberries.
Replace almonds with other nuts such as hazelnuts, pistachios or pecans.
Melt the chocolate in a microwave, stirring every 30 seconds if you prefer.
Cover cookies with melted dark or milk chocolate instead of white chocolate.
Let the chocolate set down for a least one hour before packing cookies.

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