Cookie Week: Oatmeal White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

It's Cookie Week here at PJ's Recipe Box!  We've been planning to have cookie week sometime this month since we started our blog.  Imagine our surprise, then, when the Pioneer Woman announced last week that it was Cookie Week.  'Tis the season for cookies, it seems!  We may be a week later than the rest of the internet, but we've got some great cookie recipes coming up this week.  Stay tuned!

To start off this glorious week, I'm sharing one of my most recent favorites.  The dried cranberries make them festive, and the white chocolate chips give them a wonderful rich flavor.  I especially like that these cookies have much less sugar than most recipes, but they still taste nice and sweet.  Plus, they have oatmeal in them, which automatically makes them healthy.  Right?  Right?? ;)

Oatmeal White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
adapted from oceanspray.com


Ingredients:
2/3 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups oats (not instant)
3 ounces sweetened dried cranberries (half of a regular sized bag)
1 cup white chocolate chips

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Cream together butter and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.  Next, add the baking soda and salt and briefly incorporate.  Add flour and then add oats and mix until well combined.  Stir in cranberries and white chocolate chips.

Drop by spoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet, and bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden on top. Cool for a couple minutes on the baking sheet before moving to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

Notes:
--These cookies end up staying small and more rounded than other recipes.  Don't be alarmed when they don't flatten out as much as you might expect.
--I like to use dark brown sugar in all my cookies.  It gives them a richer flavor.
--Despite the cranberries and oatmeal, my two year old son loves these cookies.  They are definitely a crowd pleaser!

Enjoy!
-Jennie