White Chocolate and Dried Cranberry Cookies

 

Adapted from the classic Toll-house Chocolate Chip Recipe

Now, i know you can never really "get tired" of homemade chocolate chip cookies, but this winter when I went home for the holidays - I was on chocolate overload. This is a great alternative to chocolate chip cookies while using the same recipe. Maybe you'll feel less guilty eating 10 of these in one sitting because they have fruit in them? I did...

If you enjoy making cookies it's a good idea to make sure you always have the basic cookie-making ingredients on hand - flour, brown sugar, vanilla, etc. Mastering a basic cookie makes it easier (and more fun) to play around with the ingredients. Instead of dried cranberries you could use blueberries, apricots, peanut better chips, raisins - whatever you've got around the house. 

Ingredients: 

2 1/4 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

1/2 cup dried cranberries

1 cup white chocolate chips

what to do:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees

2. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl

3. In a separate bowl cream together both sugars, vanilla, and butter

4. Beat in the eggs one by one until combined

5. Gradually add in the flour mixture to the wet mixture until combined

6. Add in the cranberries and white chocolate chips

7. Place spoonfuls of dough on a baking sheet

8. Bake for 8-10 mins

If you don't want to use all of the dough, you can always freeze the rest. Pull out a long sheet of plastic wrap, and place spoonfuls of the dough in the middle. Cover the dough with one side of the plastic wrap, and roll to the other side, so it forms a log. tuck in the outsides, and it's ready to store!