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Southern Living’s White Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

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In my experience, sometimes baking is best left to the pro’s, and who better to turn to than Southern Living? I have so many of their cookbooks and credit them with much of my culinary education over the years. A few years back, my mother gifted me with the 2010 Southern Living Ultimate Christmas Cookbook that is filled with everything you could need to be the perfect holiday host (or guest!). Looking for recipes using ingredients I already had in my pantry (see more below), I decided to give the White Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal-Cranberry Cookies a shot and was totally blown away. They are just the right amount of sweet and easy enough to make quickly or with your little ones.

The recipe yields about three dozen, making them a perfect desert for your holiday party, or to throw in these cute 150 Christmas Cellophane Treat Bags with twist ties Holiday Goodie Bags for Candy and give to your neighbors or coworkers. To keep myself from eating them all at home, I brought leftovers into my office and they were gone before lunch!

Have extra oats, pecans, and craisins? We’ve got you covered. Check out any of these recipes to use up those goodies and cut down on food waste:

If you try Southern Living’s White Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies, we’d love to see your photos! Tag us on instagram @fridgetofork, and be sure to let us know how it turned out in the comments below.

SL’s White Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal-Cranberry Cookies

Created by on November 21, 2017

Ingredients

  • 1 c butter or margarine, softened
  • 1 c firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 1/2 c granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 c all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2 c dried cranberries (I used 40% less sugar Craisins; however, the original recipe calls for sweetened dried cranberries)
  • 1 1/2 c pecan pieces, toasted
  • 1 1/4 c uncooked quick-cooking oats
  • 3 oz white chocolate baking bars, roughly chopped (I used white chocolate morsels)
  • 3 tbsp. shortening

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy, gradually add sugars, beating well. Add egg and vanilla, beating until blended.
  3. Combine four and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until blended. Stir in cranberries, pecans, and oats.
  4. Drop dough by heaping tablespoons 2 inches apart onto lightly greased baking sheets.
  5. Bake at 375 degrees for 9 to 11 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets 2 minutes, Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
  6. Microwave white chocolate and shortening in a medium-size microwave-safe bowl on HIGH 1 minute or until chocolate melts, stirring once. Dip half of each cookie into melted chocolate, letting excess drip back into bowl. Placed dipped cookies on wax paper; let stand until firm.

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  1. Margie C. says

    HI. I think this recipe was also in an earlier SL Christmas book. I have a lot of the SL Christmas books, and i am trying to find the book that we originally found it. My daughter loves these cookies and made them with her grandmother (who passed away in Nov 2010) and I wanted to give her the book. Thank you.

    • Ellen says

      Hi Margie, according to this post, it was also included in a book called “Christmas With Southern Living 2006”. I hope this is the one! A very sweet gift idea. We love these cookies!

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