Double Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
photo by Robin and Sue
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
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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
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Drizzle Ingredients
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon water (will need more)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Using a hand mixer, cream together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until thoroughly mixed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Reviews
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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]
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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.
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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!
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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!
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Nif_H
Canada
I love great food and I particularly like trying cuisines new to me! Although I don't prepare as much food as I used to, creating in my kitchen is still one of my favourite things to do. Enjoy!