Cranberry Chocolate Shortbread

Submitted by Calee

"Shortbread with dried cranberries and white chocolate. Yield of cookies depends on the size of your cookies."

 

• Ready In: 29mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Yields: 48 cookies

ingredients

• 2 cups butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 cups flour
• 8 ounces white chocolate, chopped (I use 6 squares Bakers white chocolate)
• 1 - 1 1⁄2 cup dried cranberries (leave whole or chopped)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
3. Add flour mix well.
4. Stir in chocolate and cranberries.
5. Drop by rounded tablespoons of dough, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten each ball of dough slightly.
6. Bake 10-14 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes on baking sheets.
7. Remove to wire rack, cool completely.

Reviews

[nora3972]

No surprises here. Took this to a maj jong group this afternoon and was accosted for the recipe. I found that the entire butter, sugar, flour mixing should happen in a food processor- and the adding chocolate chips and cranberries by hand in a large bowl was a good fix.. Hard to tell when done. Think it ended up being approximately an extra 5 minutes for me.

 

[twissis]

Out of idle curiosity, I googled shortbread & all sites pretty much said the same thing ~ a buttery cookie w/a rich crumbly texture that is made w/a high proportion of butter to flour & a comparatively sml proportion of sugar. This is a perfect description of these cookies, but they take the genre out of the ordinary w/the addition of choc & cranberries. I made a half recipe, the yield was right-on & I had no trouble handling the dough. Like other reviewers, I plumped the dry cranberries b4 adding them to the mix & I did use dark chocolate as we agreed. As DH taste-tested, he just kept saying these were *excellent cookies* & how pleased he was they would be our contribution to a *Hot Chocolate and Sweet Treats* family get together this afternoon. We love these cookies, Calee! Thx for sharing this recipe w/us.

 

[CinchaS]

Yum! These were simple to make and worth the calories. I halved the recipe and it came out just fine. Thanks for posting a nice treat!

 

[Sydney Mike]

These I like ~ very much, I like! I took a suggestion & soaked the cranberries briefly in OJ [& a little orange extract!] before putting it all together & making cookies, & they turned out great for me. Nevertheless, next time [& there will be one!] I'd like to make them into bars & add them in that fashion to my finger foods from time to time! I'm not a big fan of white chocolate, but it worked well in this case! Many thanks!

 

[Engrossed]

These tasted wonderful! However, I had problems with making them as cookies...when I'd go to flatten them they'd crumble! So I pushed the dough into my largest jellyroll pan and pricked the top all over just like regular shortbread. I think I baked it a little longer until it was lightly browned at the edges. I let it cool and then cut it into bars. I used white chocolate chips. I would suggest soaking the cranberries first...perhaps in orange juice...because they were a little dry. My co-workers all raved about these. Made for 1-2-3 hit wonders.