I kept seeing the same Ocean Spray Craisins cookie recipe in their magazine ads. I would flip through my food magazines and the giant cookies would stop me from page turning. I think it’s hysterical that the cookies in the ad are so huge. When you look at the instructions it says to drop dough by “rounded teaspoons” – Those are small cookies. I’m a “rounded tablespoon” cookie girl. When a recipe says it makes 2.5 dozen, I’m lucky to get 1.5 dozen.
The Ingredients:
2/3 Cup Butter or Margarine, softened – I used Trader Joe’s organic butter
2/3 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1.5 Cups Old-Fashioned Oats – I used Quaker
1.5 Cups Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Six Ounce Package Ocean Spray Craisins – I used Trader Joe’s dried cranberries – hah! hah! – thanks for the idea and recipe Ocean Spray.
2/3 Cup White Chocolate Chunks or Chips – I could only find chips at the Nugget market
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together in a medium mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
It took a while for mine to get light and fluffy.
My mixer is a handheld POS – looking forward to getting my grandma’s old school KitchenAid stand up mixer out of storage – where it’s been since we closed out her estate. My kitchen and dough will be so happy for it to join us.
Combine oats, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate mixing bowl.
Add butter mixture in several batches – mixing well after each addition. Once I got the batter all mixed, I divided it into two bowls. Dan is not a fan of white chocolate.
I put Ghirardelli Chocolate Chips in one of the batches for him. The other batch had the white chocolate chips.
I got my tablespoon sized cookie balls onto my ungreased cookie sheets and into the oven. I baked them for about 12 minutes.
They didn’t flatten out as much as I thought they would. The magazine photo showed Frisbee sized cookies 😉 and I thought mine would look as perfect, LOL. It would be so fun to be a food stylist – love watching those competitions on the Food Network’s Food Challenge.
Cookies for Santa… (You’ve got 98 days until Christmas)
Cookies for Dan…
At first I thought they were a bit too cake like – but after they cooled down, they got more chewy. I was really pleased with the combination, but then again, I’m a white chocolate fan in small amounts. Dan grabbed one off the cooling rack before he even knew what they were for. I gasped in horror and then pretended that they were for some imaginary bake sale. He just started laughing and then grabbed another.
I’m still a fan of regular old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies, but these definitely hit the spot.
What’s your favorite kind of cookie?
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Do I have to pick just one? I’m not a fan of white chocolate, but one of my favorite cookies is white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Another favorite – oatmeal chocolate chip with walnuts (don’t like raisins).
I like my cookies soft, gooey, and chewy. Yum! Although I am a bit partial to just the cookie dough too. 🙂
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Love choc. and macadamia nut cookies – so sinfully good!
I’m lucky if I get many baked cookies because I love to eat the dough! Can’t pick just one favorite…I love oatmeal chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodles and ginger snaps. And I prefer them just a tad bit underbaked so when they cool, they’re chewy. YUM!
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Cookie dough is awesome in small amounts. A spoonful or two is enough, but man can I mow through freshly baked cookies. Snickerdoodles are a second favorite of mine. My ex SIL makes some screamin’ good ones, maybe I’ll see if she will make them with me for the blog.
These look similar to my favorite cookies except mine have pecans in them. I got my original recipe from Allrecipes.com called “Cranberry Hootycreek cookies”. The name is strange but they are delicious! I love the white chocolate chip/dried cranberry combo.
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Just checked out the Cranberry Hootycreek Cookies – YUM! I would love to make some of the jars full for Christmas. Thanks Paige!
My ULTIMATE favorite cookie is chocolate dipped macaroons. I’ve never attempted to make them…maybe one day. Every year my family attends a cookie exchange party during the holidays.. I’ve made the same cookie for 26 years…Peanut Butter cookie with a Hershey kiss on top. It’s always a hit.
p.s. I sent you a receipe for Gooey Baby Ruth Brownies….I hear they are to die for 🙂
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My girlfriend Deede is the macaroon queen. She’s spent months and months perfecting them. We should do a girl’s night and make some. I have always loved the peanut butter kiss cookies… and I can’t wait to try the gooey Baby Ruth Brownies, they sound crazy good.
Cookie nuggets—YUM! You can usually flatten out dough balls with a spoon/finger/2×4 to make them bake flatter if the consistency is thick like that. Those look like a perfect glass-of-milk companion! I like just about every cookie imaginable, but if had to pick one—like as a death row dessert, perhaps—I’d have to go with your basic chocolate chip.
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Definitely nuggets of goodness. I did push them down a little, next time I’ll try the 2×4 – hah! Basic chocolate chip cookies will always top the list for me too.
Yum, yum, yum! This is one of my favorite combinations for cookies. I’m with you on the cookie size and with 3 kids bigger cookies are always better LOL I actually like how your cookies look, I don’t think they would have been nearly as good being flat :o)
Chocolate chip and Peanut butter are my favorite kind of cookies…right out of the oven…yummy. I think these cookies you made look great, Kath!
Love gingersnaps….. they are great cookies to make with kids. They love rolling the dough into little balls and shaking them in sugar to coat. I used the recipe from Better Home and Gardens cookbook.