Fresh Cranberry Cookies

"These are a holiday favorite at our house. Moist cake-like cookies with lots finely chopped fresh cranberries. The Lemon Glaze is a must and really compliments these cookies."
 
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Ready In:
28mins
Ingredients:
13
Yields:
4 dozen
Serves:
48
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a food processor or blender pulse cranberries until medium-fine. Set aside.
  • Cream sugar and butter.
  • Add all the rest of the ingredients except cranberries; mix well.
  • Gently mix in cranberries.
  • Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 375* for 8 to 10 minutes or until rim of cookie is lightly browned. Don't overbake or they will be dry and hard. :-).
  • Brush on the glaze while still warm.
  • *GLAZE*.
  • Combine powdered sugar and lemon juice till smooth. Should be very thin like gravy. Add more or less sugar for right consistency.

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Reviews

  1. These cookies are delicious and are a "must try" for cranberry lovers. They are moist and full of wonderful flavors, and the glaze really adds that extra touch. Just remember to glaze the cookies while they are still warm, as the recipe directs; I forgot to glaze the first pan right away and found out that they glaze much more nicely if you remember to brush it on while they are still warm. I glazed the rest of the cookies as soon as I transferred them from the baking pans to cooling racks. I made per recipe and don't think anything at all needs to be added or changed, but next time I think I'll add some chopped walnuts--I just think they'd be a great addition here. Everyone who tasted these cookies loved them. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
     
  2. Love these cookies! Every fall I seek out fresh cranberries with these in mind. Heed warning: do not overbake. Also, someetimes I stir in some chocolate chips.
     
  3. They are fantastic,I made these 3 times first time I followed the receipt to the letter. Great,next I added coconut 1 cup still great,next I added nuts 1 cup fine chopped pecans. You can do alot with it but the original is great.
     
  4. Great recipe! There are two ways to think of these cookies: As festive holiday cookies, or as healthy year-round oatmeal cookies. Ingredient proportions are correct, lemon glaze adds "zing." Highly recommended.
     
  5. These were a very tasty little cookie, but they weren't quite as successful for me as they were for everyone else, and I'm not sure why. I followed this recipe exactly as posted, using fresh cranberries. The dough seemed to me a little too soft and it was. The cookies spread out very thin when baked and were too soft to remove from the baking sheet. A lot of them broke in half when I attempted to do so, and I really had to let them cool before trying. The glaze actually added to the softness, so I ended up with a tinful of delicious, but crumbled, cookies. I do want to try this again and see if I have better luck. Thanks for shairng.
     
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  1. I LOVE THEESE COOKIES! I made them exactly as written for Christmas cookies. Everybody loved them. I took them to both family's & to a cookie exchange party. I just joined weight watchers & wanted to make these cookies sooo bad. I looked around to try & find some substitutions to make it a little "healthier". Originally I was going to try & replace the sugar with splenda, then realized it is just brown sugar. So instead I replaced the butter with Greek yogurt. The batter is really thin when you get it all together. If you let it sit for about 10 min it thickens up a bit. I was really worried but it turned out really great! The only thing I would do differently next time would be to add a little salt. Weight wat hers points went from 4 pts each to 2 pts each.
     

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I am the wife of my wonderful husband John and the mother of 3 boys, Zander 5yrs, Asher 2 1/2yrs, and Tiernan 10 months. We live in and love Alaska. I love to hike and camp and go running in the mountains. I work part time as a hairstylist in a little salon in my home. I also enjoy scrap-booking, photography, and reading a really good book(my latest was Twilight by Stephenie Meyer). And I love to cook, especially bake! How I rate recipes: 5 Stars - This recipe is perfect. I would recommend it to others and would definitely make again. 4 Stars - This recipe was good but I would change something in it next time. 3 Stars - This is a recipe I would not make again, but it was ok. 2 Stars - I would not make this recipe again and we didn't like it at all. 1 Star - This recipe did not work out or the taste was unappealing and I wouldn't make it again.
 
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