Fresh Cranberry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Chewy, moist and delicious cranberry cookies loaded with chocolate! Fresh cranberries give these yummy cookies a refreshing tangy flavor which perfectly contrasts with chocolate and cinnamon spice. Perfect sweet treat for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 cups rolled oats or quick-cooking oats
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened or at room temp (if using salted butter lessen the salt to 1/2 tsp)
- 1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup fresh cranberries, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or morsels
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Prepare two cookie sheets. Line them with parchment paper. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Add the oats to the flour mixture and mix well.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together the softened butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract just until combined.
- Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix well until all the ingredients are moistened through.
- Fold in the chopped cranberries and chocolate chips. Evenly distribute the cranberries and chocolate so the cookies come out beautifully dotted with red and brown colors. Drop the mixture by rounded tablespoons onto the prepared cookie sheets. A cookie scooper is so helpful for this so use it if you have one for equal measurements. Do not flatten the cookies. Bake for 10-11 minutes or just until lightly browned. Do not overbake.
- Let stand for 5 minutes before you transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. They will be quite soft so you need to let them sit a bit. Makes between 48 (or at least 4 dozen) cookies if you are using a rounded tablespoon. I initially used a large ice cream scoop the first time I made this so I only managed to make about 2 dozen but the cookies were huge. (See photos for reference).
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