{"id":1483,"date":"2010-09-17T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiddy.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2010-09-17T06:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:26:51","slug":"oatmeal-cranberry-white-choc-chip-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiddy.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Oatmeal Cranberry White Choc. Chip Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I kept seeing the same\u00a0Ocean Spray Craisins cookie\u00a0recipe in their\u00a0magazine ads. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

The Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2\/3 Cup Butter or Margarine, softened – I used Trader Joe’s organic butter
\n2\/3 Cup Brown Sugar
\n2 Large Eggs
\n1.5 Cups Old-Fashioned Oats – I used Quaker
\n1.5 Cups Flour
\n1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
\n1\/2 Teaspoon Salt
\n1 Six Ounce Package Ocean Spray Craisins\u00a0 – \u00a0I used Trader Joe’s dried cranberries – hah! hah! – thanks for the\u00a0idea and recipe Ocean Spray.
\n2\/3 Cup White Chocolate Chunks or Chips – I could only find chips at the Nugget market<\/p>\n

Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together in a medium mixing bowl until light and fluffy.<\/p>\n

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It took a while for mine to get light and fluffy.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Combine oats, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate mixing bowl.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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I put Ghirardelli Chocolate Chips in one of the batches for him. The other batch had the white chocolate chips.<\/p>\n

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I got my tablespoon sized cookie balls onto my ungreased cookie sheets and into the oven. I baked them for about 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

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They didn’t flatten out as much as I thought they would. The magazine photo showed Frisbee sized cookies \ud83d\ude09 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<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Cookies for Santa… (You’ve got 98 days until Christmas)<\/p>\n

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Cookies for Dan…<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I’m still a fan of regular old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies, but these definitely hit the spot.<\/p>\n

What’s your favorite kind of cookie?
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I kept seeing the same\u00a0Ocean Spray Craisins cookie\u00a0recipe in their\u00a0magazine ads. \u00a0I 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” … <\/p>\n

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