If you like oatmeal cookies with raisins, you are going to love oatmeal cookies with craisins! You are really going to love oatmeal craisin cookies with the addition of crunchy toasted pecans and creamy white chocolate chips. These chewy oat cookies are my new favorite. Add these to lunchboxes to provide a tasty source of energy. Oats, dried fruit, and nuts are a healthy combination, even in a cookie. I’ve been known to enjoy one or two of these as a grab and go breakfast too, or sometimes I make no-bake Oatmeal Balls. Cranberry Oatmeal cookies are hearty, buttery, and just sweet enough. They are the perfect snack! The colors in these Cranberry Oatmeal cookies make them a beautiful addition to holiday cookie platters or they can be wrapped up and given as gifts to your neighbors and friends.
Why You’ll Love These Cookies
Key Ingredients
Complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Dry Ingredients Mix: Salt, baking soda, all purpose flour, and ground cinnamon are mixed together to create the dry base for our oatmeal cookies.Unsalted Butter: I almost always bake with unsalted butter, because I want to be able to control how much salt is in my sweet recipes. Let the butter soften to room temperature before mixing your cranberry oatmeal cookie dough. Sugar: Both white granulated sugar and light brown sugar go into this recipe. The blend of the two gives us the perfect soft and chewy texture.Eggs: Use two large eggs, and let them come to room temperature before mixing, just like the butter. Room temperature eggs will incorporate more smoothly into the cookie dough.Vanilla Extract: A must for almost every cookie recipe, a good quality pure vanilla extract (no imitation please!) adds that homemade baked good flavor that you expect.Quick Oats: Quick oats are my go-to when adding them to cookies. They are thin enough, but not so thin that they dissolve into the batter. Avoid instant oats or steel cut oats for this recipe, and buy the ones that say “quick” on the container.Add Ins: A lovely blend of chopped toasted pecans, white chocolate chips, and sweetened dried cranberries is added to these cookies. I used Ocean Spray Craisins here, but other brands will work.
How to Make Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
Recipe Tips
Use other nuts. Not a huge fan of pecans? No problem! Use walnuts, almonds, or macadamia nuts instead. You can also leave them out all together and add more craisins and white chocolate chips to your cranberry oatmeal cookies instead. Measuring Flour. Be sure to properly measure your flour by spooning it into your measuring cup, rather than scooping the measuring cup into the flour. Level the top of the measuring cup using the back of a butter knife. Watch your cookies. Ovens all work a little bit differently, so your cookies may need a bit more or less time than mine did. Remove the cookies from the oven when the edges are set and the tops of the cookies are no longer shiny. Let Them Cool. You want to let the cookies cool halfway on their baking sheets, this allows them to finish cooking and helps with the crispy edges. It also ensures that the cookies won’t fall apart when you try to move them to the racks.
More Homemade Cookie Recipes to Try
You can find all of my delicious cookie recipes here, but let me show you which are my all-time favorites:
Italian Wedding CookiesItalian Ricotta Cookies Peanut Butter No Bake CookiesClassic Snickerdoodles
Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies are the perfect chewy, hearty snack! Save this recipe so you can make it again and again – your family will definitely ask you to. © Little Sunny Kitchen
