Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Cookies
Updated May 16, 2019
I love baking all year long, but holiday baking is my favorite! It gives me an excuse to make massive amounts of treats to share with friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, anyone and everyone! And I am even more excited this year because my handsome husband gets to help! Yahoo!!
I go into mad baking mode. I turn on the holiday tunes and spend hours and hours in the kitchen. I can really belt out “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree.” 🙂 It is so much fun!! And when the baking is complete, I get to package my goodies in cute bags, boxes, and tins with festive colors and ribbons!! Oh, I am getting excited already!!
This year my baking “to do” list is still not completely finalized. I keep changing my mind on what I want to bake and give out. There are too many great recipes out there. I do have my standards that I will be doing, but I am going to add in some new treats this year.
I recently tried a new cookie recipe and it might make the holiday list. I made Cranberry Orange Oatmeal cookies and they are so good and so festive!
To bring out the orange flavor, I soaked the dried cranberries in orange juice for ten minutes and then drained them. I also added in orange zest. The flavor was amazing! I love cranberry and orange together. The oats made the cookies nice and chewy...and they stayed soft, my favorite kind of cookie!!
I know the holidays are meant for splurging, but these cookies are actually healthy!! There is so much flavor going on you won’t be able to tell though!I promise…you will love these!! And if you live close, beware, you might be receiving these in the near future:)
I am submitting these to Susan at Food Blogga, who has started a collection of Christmas cookies. Be sure to go to this site for lots of great holiday recipes!!
Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Cookies
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
½ cup chunky-style applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
Zest of one orange
1 ½ cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup dried cranberries
½ cup orange juice
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put the dried cranberries in a small bowl. Pour orange juice over the berries and soak for ten minutes.
- Put butter and sugars in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on low speed until combined. Add egg, applesauce, vanilla, and orange zest, mix until well blended, 2 to 3 minutes. Mix in oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Drain the orange juice from the cranberries and mix them into the dough.
- Drop spoonfuls of dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper or Silpats, spacing 2 inches apart. Bake cookies until golden and just set, about 13 minutes. Let cool on sheets for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack and let cool them completely.
You’re so cute! I love how excited you get!
Those are about the most perfect cookies I’ve ever seen.
They look wonderful. These cookies rock!
i love to “sing” certain christmas songs, too, as long as no one’s around. i’m not sure what i do can legitimately be called singing. 🙂
meanwhile, awesome cookies. cranberry and orange simply belong together. 🙂
Those cookies look mighty good! I love cranberries…
Great banner, by the way!
cheers,
Rosa
good-looking cookies…these would make great christmas gifts!
The whole time I’m reading this I’m thinking “GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!” For the past few weeks, I’ve been cranking the Christmas music up LOUD while I bake. My mom and I do Christmas cookies every year. This year I really wanna try out some new cookies along with the old stand-bys that people expect from us (our meticulously decorated sugar cookies especially!). Today I tried out a recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s “World Peace” Cookies. I’ll post the recipe soon. I still have the Christmas music playing! 😀
THese look great and perfect for the season. I’m baking like crazy for Christmas and really need to stop myself. I have several different kinds in the freezer and I know that I want to bake at least 5 more different ones. Like you, I keep changing my mind! The cookies are going to be stacked mighty high on the trays this Christmas. :o)
These cookies are just gorgeous – the cranberries are like little jewels.
These look yummy, Maria! There’s something so special about Christmas baking! I love it and always do it!
Gorgeous cookies and so festive with the cranberies.
Rosie x
Anything with cranberry is a hit with me and these sound and look very Christmassy.
Maria
x
yum I love anything with orange! your cookies look delicious 🙂
Cranberries and orange go so well together, I can imagine how good these are!
Those cookies look so good! I have been wanting to try making some oatmeal cookies and using cranberries is a good idea.
this is very similar to a recipe i tried from annie’s eats that is on my blog…the cranberries are soaked in the eggs to plump up but i like your idea of using OJ instead. these are some of my favorite cookies – try them with white chocolate chips, it’s so good!
Wow! I love this recipe! I think I like it better than mine. I will give it a try. Thank you for stopping by and visiting. I love finding your blog! I'll be back!