Christmas is – beside snow, family, carols and presents – about homemade cookies! I’m a foodie: I love food, I love to eat & prepare it. I love everything about food! And when it comes to cookies… they’re my guilty pleasure.
These cranberry Christmas cookies are very easy to put together, yet delicious. You will need just seven ingredients, they bake in a blink and are delicious with hot milk or tea.
You will need:
- 140 grams of whole purpose flour;
- 100 grams of powdered sugar;
- 100 grams of dried cranberries (or any other dried fruit that you like);
- 100 grams of butter (at room temperature);
- 2 eggs (at room temperature);
- 5 ml of vanilla extract;
- a pinch of salt.
Method:
First of all, make sure that your butter & eggs are at room temperature. The soft butter will mix easier, while the at-room-temperature eggs will prevent the mixture from separating.
1. First thing you got to do is to mix a bit your butter until it gets nice and soft. Add the powdered sugar and mix them both until they get a cream-like consistency. Add the vanilla extract as well.
2. Add the eggs, one at a time & mix until they are well incorporated. If the eggs are too cold, your mixture might separate and your Christmas cookies are doomed. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look pretty, it will all come together when you’ll add the flour.
3. Add the flour and salt and mix well until combined. You will end up with a very soft, sticky dough.
4. Add the dried cranberries (or any other dried fruit you like) and mix them with the rest of the mixture until well combined.
5. Scoop small amounts of mixture into a backing pan. Be careful and leave some extra space between the cookies because they do spread quite a lot while baking.
6. Bake them for 10-15 mins at medium temperature (175 degrees C), or until they get golden brown around the edges.
I hope you give this recipe a try because is very easy to make and delicious and perfect for Christmas time!
12 comments
These look amazing! What a fun holiday dessert!
To this day, I don’t think I’ve ever had a cranberry! I love fruit of all kinds – especially berries – AND I adore cookies, so clearly I need to get off my butt and whip up a batch of these 😋
Hope you’ll love them, Indya! They are super easy to make and the cranberries bring such nice flavour!
These sounds delicious! My daughter and I will be baking this weekend.. I’ll definitely add these into the mix!
These look so good! I love cranberries
I love cranberry cookies and these ones looks delicious! Thanks for the recipe
These look amazing! I don’t think I have ever had cookies with cranberries in them. I am going to have to try this recipe!
Oh, they are so delicious and addictive! Let me know how they turned out & if you enjoyed them, Liz!
I bet my grandma would enjoy these. She was just saying the other day how she would like to have some.
Ooooh these look delicious! And so easy! Thank you for this – definitely making these this year!
These look so yummy! Definitely making these for a holiday party I’m headed to this weekend.
Great! Let me know how they turned out!