Double Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

Submitted by Nif_H

"Oatmeal, 2 kinds of chocolate, dried cranberries and a drizzle on top come together to make one terrific cookie! The sunflower seeds add the salty crunch that you would normally get from nuts. You can take these cookies to schools that are nut-free so they are great for lunches or a gift for a teacher!"

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Yields: 24 cookies

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup butter, room temperature
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3⁄4 cup old fashioned oats, rolled
• 3⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1⁄4 cup cocoa powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1⁄3 cup dried cranberries
• 1⁄3 cup sunflower seeds (shelled, toasted and salted)
• 1⁄2 cup white chocolate chips

• Drizzle Ingredients

• 1 cup icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon water (will need more)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Using a hand mixer, cream together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until thoroughly mixed.
3. In a medium bowl, stir together oats, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Slowly add dry ingredients to butter mixture, using the hand mixer set to lowest setting.
4. With a spoon, stir in cranberries, sunflower seeds and chocolate chips. Drop cookie dough by the teaspoonful on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
5. Bake cookies for 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let sit for 2 minutes before removing and placing on a cooling rack. The cooling rack should be on top of a baking sheet or wax paper – something to catch the icing drips.
6. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix icing sugar, water and vanilla until smooth. If necessary, add tiny amounts of water until mixture can be drizzled. When cookies have cooled, dip a fork in the icing mixture. Let the icing lightly drizzle over the cookies, moving the fork back and forth above the cookies.

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

Loved these little tasties, especially with the chocolate & cranberry combo, but then that my addictions showing through! I did use a larger scoop than the teaspoon suggested & still got over 2 dozen cookies! They were made mostly for my other half to share at a weekly group, but I kept 4 back for a simple taste test, & yes, I need 4 to make an accurate test! Definitely a nice keeper of a recipe! Thanks for this very nice creation! [Made & reviewed in I Recommend recipe tag]

 

[Diana 2]

These are easy to make and are quite tasty. I made some without the glaze, and found we preferred those. We thought the glaze made them just a little too sweet for our taste, but they certainly look pretty with it. After I made the 24 cookies using a 1 teaspoon scoop, I still had plenty of dough left. I switched to the tablespoon scoop, and got another 24 cookies. :) I liked the larger cookies better. I know...shouldn't make a difference, but to my warped mind it did. Made for the 2010 Craze-E Category Contest. Good luck and thanks for participating.

 

[Tinkerbell]

I thought the use of contest ingredients was really creative and we looked forward to trying these. For the most part they're okay, but my family just prefers a softer cookie. These were quite crumbly, dry and not sweet enough for our taste; even with the drizzle of icing. I wish we had enjoyed them more, but am really glad we tried them. Thanks for sharing your creation, chef! :) Good luck in the contest!

 

[Lalaloula]

These cookies are very yummy! They have a slightly caramelly flavour from the white chocolate and that goes great with the spices and cranberries.<br/>The oats lend the cookie a crispy texture, which we all enjoyed and the sunflower seeds added great crunch.<br/>I was a little absent minded while scooping the dough onto the cookie sheet and somehow my scoops must have been rather large, cause I ended up with only 7 cookies from half the recipe. Those spread very much during baking, so that I had big coffee shop style cookies. Thats nice, though, too. :)<br/>I prefer these without the glaze as I found they were too sweet with it on top.<br/>Other than that though a lovely little recipe and great for sharing (which I already did).<br/>THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your creation with us and good luck in the contest!