I’ll try to keep it short, but here’s a story… You are about to go on vacation for a week to the tropics. So you pack all your things, tidy up the house, book two different airbnbs at the last minute, let your neighbors know, and of course you bake a giant bag of oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookies to snack on in the airport, on the plane, in the hotel, on the beach, etc…(who needs space for extra underwear?) Then that evening you get a message that there’s a strike at the airport the next day, your flight is cancelled and it is unavailable till the next week. So you and your wife spend a week glumly gorging on cookies and watching ‘Money Heist’ on the couch.
Next week, day before the flight. You need (need!) a massive amount of cookies again, but you can’t make the same ones. Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate chip cookies make you think of Denver, Stockholm, Arturo, and your couch (watch Money Heist). So you get creative and next thing you know you’re in the kitchen zesting an orange and chopping white chocolate. You put your first batch in the oven, and you hear a scream from the living room because they are going to strike at the airport again the next day. You have a cookie and you smile. Later that night, while glumly watching the ‘Heist’, you find out the flight you wanted to take the following day is €1000 more. You eat more cookies, and accept you’ve had a great day. That’s how good these cookies are.
Anywho:
– I put these on a baking tray using a tablespoon. They don’t spread out a lot, so you could probably put more. But they’re pretty soft, so not too much.
-After blending everything together I let this stand for 10 min, by my thinking, to let everything and the orange soak into oatmeal a bit. Did it help? Dunno, but my cookies were great.
– I avoid/limit white sugar in recipes. It doesn’t taste like anything. But honey isn’t cheap. You can use a half cup of the white stuff instead and your cookies will be fine.
Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
These cookies saved my life
Ingredients
-2 eggs
-2 cups flour (240g)
-1 cup butter (room temperature/softened)
-3 cups whole rolled oats
-1 tsp baking soda
-1/2 tsp baking powder
-100 ml honey
-50 ml sugar
-1 1/2 cup dried cranberries
-1 1/2 cup chopped white chocolate
-1/2 tsp cardamom
-Zest from one orange
-Juice from one orange slice (about 2 tbs)
-2 tsp vanilla
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- In one large mixing bowl combine the following dry things: flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, chocolate, cranberries and cardamom.
- In another bowl, combine the eggs, white sugar, vanilla, butter, orange juice, zest, and honey. Using a hand mixer, mix until smooth.
- Add the bowl with the wet ingredients to the bowl with the dry ingredients. Stir with a spoon until you’ve got one consistency.
- Place tablespoon sized drops of the cookie batter on a baking pan (non stick, or greased, or with baking paper) with about an inch between them.
- Bake for about 7 min, or until the edges begin to brown. My wife likes them thoroughly browned (she does! Lolz).
- Let them cool for a minute. Put them on a plate. Or be a child and begin immediately shoving them in your face. Put the following song on. Bask.
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