Cranberry White Choco Chips Cookies♡

Now that I'm home alone with nothing to do and thinking about life, I am somehow able to act on impulse. It's not a good practice - I know - but just this summer? :)

Had this sudden urge to bake recently, looked for some cookie and cupcake recipes and found lots that I want to try. With no one at home anymore =( there's no one to eat the stuff I make.

It's interesting, but I really wanted to go for a cookie/cupcake run - giving it to the homeless - sometime ever since an encounter back in March.

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Anyhow, was just browsing, and found this wonderful recipe! Had a random cranberry craving and ta-da! Yummy cookie recipe :D so excited to make this!

(so because I didn't want to make so many, I halved the recipe into making 18. Hence a lot of the measurements are in tablespoons.

for reference: 1/4 cup = 4 tablespoons, 1 ounce = 28 grams)

18 tbsp all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup butter

2 tbsp white sugar

6 tbsp brown sugar

1 package (30 grams) instant vanilla pudding mix

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg

1/2 of a 6 ounce (84 grams) package of white choco chips

1/4 of a 6 ounce (42 grams) package of dried cranberries

1. Preheat oven to 350˚ F (175˚ C). Lightly grease baking sheet and place on prepared pan.

2. Combine flour and baking soda in a bowl.

3. Beat butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and pudding mix in an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth.

4. Beat in egg and vanilla extract until smooth.

5. Mix in flour mixture until just incorporated.

6. Fold in white choco chips and cranberries until evenly combined.

7. Make about 1-inch spheres of dough and flatten them out on the cookie sheet, l

eaving about 1-cm between each flattened dough. (They tend to rise rather than expand - possibly because of the pudding mix - so flatten them a little more than you probably would with other cookie recipes :) )

8. Bake in preheated oven until edges are golden brown (9-12 minutes).

9. Take out of oven after and cool on cookie sheet for another 10-ish minutes before fully cooling on a cooling rack.

10. Enjoy!

so...i didn't flatten them enough....=[..but they look good already, before baking! :D

An hour later...

Sooooo good! haha I think I'll make this more often...yummm

And this recipe halved really well! Maybe I'll try making the full amount next time, I'm sure they'll be gone in no time :)

Other possibilities: choco pudding, mint chips (favourite!!)

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Update: So I made this again on the 19th for my fam in ottawa...but I remembered halfway that I was using a diff recipe...=.=

I think I like the first one better because this one had a bit of a doughy taste..? But it was still pretty good...so here's the other recipe just in case some don't have all the ingredients for the first one.

• Makes about 24 cookies~ yummmmm!
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
  
  
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
• 1 cup dried cranberries

Just follow the directions from the recipe above, but omit the pudding mix, and spread the the dough a little further apart. :D

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