Chewy Cranberry Orange Cookies Food

CRANBERRY ORANGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg until well blended. Mix in 1 teaspoon orange zest and 2 tablespoons orange juice. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the orange mixture. Mix in cranberries and if using, walnuts, until evenly distributed. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Cookies should be spaced at least 2 inches apart.
• Bake for 12 to 14 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges are golden. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.
• In a small bowl, mix together 1/2 teaspoon orange zest, 3 tablespoons orange juice and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Spread over the tops of cooled cookies. Let stand until set.

CHEWY CRANBERRY ORANGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven. To 350F/180C. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment
• Beat cream cheese, butter and sugars until smooth and creamy. Add the vanilla and orange zest, beat to combine.
• Mix the flour, salt, soda and corn starch and add to the cream cheese mixture, mixing until just combined. Do not overmix.
• Fold in the dried cranberries.
• Drop by heaping tablespoonful onto prepared sheets, spacing about 1-in/2.5cm apart.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges just begin to become golden brown. Leave on the sheets for about a minute, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
• Makes about 18-24 cookies.

CHEWY CRANBERRY-OATMEAL COOKIES WITH ORANGE ICING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheet with Reynolds Parchment Paper; set aside. In large bowl, beat butter, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla and orange peel with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in remaining cookie ingredients.
• On lined cookie sheet, place cookies 2 inches apart.
• Bake 11 to 14 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack; cool completely, about 15 minutes.
• In small bowl, stir powdered sugar, vanilla and enough orange juice until thin enough to drizzle. Spoon into small resealable food-storage plastic bag; cut off tiny corner of bag. Squeeze bag to drizzle icing over cookies.

CHEWY CRANBERRY OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cover two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• In medium bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and stir in oats.
• Set aside.
• With an electric mixer, beat the butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
• Add honey and vanilla and beat until blended.
• Add the flour mixture in two additions, beating until well combined.
• Stir in cranberries and chocolate chunks.
• Drop the dough by heaping tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto the cookie sheets.
• Bake until the centers of the cookies are soft, about 9 to 11 minutes.
• Let cool on the sheets for 5 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

CHEWY CRANBERRY CHIPS COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Heat butter in a pan till lightly browned and has a nutty fragrance.
• Whisk in cheese and sugars and salt. Let sit while stirring flour, baking soda, nutmeg and ginger together. Give a stir to the butter mixture let sit again while placing parchment paper on three large cookie sheet pans. FYI Letting the sugars sit in the butter/ cheese mixture helps dissolve the sugars, making a delicious chewy cookie.
• Whisk in whole egg, yolk and vanilla.
• Stir in the flour mixture to combine then stir in the chips, orange zest and cranberries. And optional candied ginger if you like.
• Place 8 cookies per sheet pan.
• Bake 12-14 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let rest 1-2 minutes.
• Remove and let cool on wire racks.

CHEWY CRANBERRY OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Oven to 350 degrees F.
• (if baking right away).
• Line sheet pans with parchment.
• Mix the dry ingredients together (not including sugars), then stir in the oats.
• Set aside.
• Beat the butter and both sugars together until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs, then scrape down the bowl; add the honey and vanilla and beat until blended.
• Add the flour mixture in two additions, beating each until well combined.
• Stir in the cranberries and pecans.
• At this point, you can either bake, or freeze.
• To freeze, just scrape the dough onto plastic wrap, roll into a log, wrap tightly, and freeze until ready to bake.
• Then just take them out of the freezer, let sit for about 15 minutes, then slice into 3/16" thick slices and bake as directed.
• To bake immediately: drop by tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart on parchment lined sheet pans.
• Bake until the centers of the cookies are soft and no longer look wet; about 9-11 minutes.
• Let cool on the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool.