Loaded White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Do you crave a delicious oatmeal cookie with white chocolate chips and cranberries?  This special loaded White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie recipe tastes like it came from a bakery, but it’s SO easy to make at home!  Everywhere I take these cookies people ask for the recipe!

This post is sponsored by the Glass Barn and brought to you by Indiana Soybean Farmers, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Two of my favorite cookie recipes of all time are my Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe and The Best Dark Chocolate and Oatmeal Cookies.  Mixing milk chocolate and white chocolate chips along with the silky dough makes the first recipe irresistible!  And I love the oatmeal in the second chocolate chip cookie recipe.  My kids have been snacking on dried cranberries all of the time and all I’ve wanted to do is add cranberries into some cookies!

So, I tested several variations of my favorite cookie recipes with both chocolate and white chocolate chips, oatmeal AND cranberries.  This new Loaded White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie is a real winner!

I had so many variations of this recipe I finally narrowed them down and took samples to a county Farm Bureau board meeting.  The cookies with milk chocolate chips were chosen first, but once people tried the cookie with the white chocolate chips most people liked those better!  It’s funny how I tend to gravitate to more traditional chocolate chip cookies, but I often enjoy the more complex taste of a white chocolate chip cookie.

Oatmeal Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies

The white chocolate chips can easily be substituted for chocolate chips.  As the weather cools off and the holidays approach maybe we’ll prefer milk chocolate chips.  Either way, I can definitely picture our family enjoying these warm cookies with a glass of milk during the holidays!

The old-fashioned or rolled oats give the cookie more structure and flavor that is so delicious!  Aren’t we supposed to eat more whole grains?  Well, I’m pretty sure these are whole oats or whole grains!

Our family doesn’t grow oats on our farm anymore, but a century ago oats were important crops on many farms.  Oats were needed to feed horses before farmers had tractors.  I love that I can just put oats directly in recipes like this.  And even better we can take these oatmeal cookies with us for a snack while we do work in much easier ways in a tractor as opposed to walking behind horses.  My grandpa was known to tell some people that the best day of his life was the day the last horse left the farm.  I don’t think he disliked horses, I think it was the hard work alongside horses that was exhausting.  So, thank goodness for modern-day technology that makes life at home and on the farm easier!

Ingredients Needed to Make Loaded Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

• Sugar
• Brown Sugar
• Butter
• Eggs
• All-purpose Flour
• Baking Soda
• Cinnamon
• Dried Cranberries
• Rolled or Old-Fashioned Oats
• White Chocolate Chips
• Macadamia Nuts (optional)

How to Make Loaded White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

1. In a mixing bowl cream butter, shortening, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs and continue mixing until well blended.
2. Mix flour, baking soda, and cinnamon. Add to creamed mixture. Add oats and mix well.
3. Stir in dried cranberries, nuts and chips on low so that the chips don’t get broken, or stir by hand.
4. Make dough into balls or drop onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 degrees F for 6 to 8 minutes, depending on type of cookie sheet. Remove from oven when cookies are still slightly gooey in the center. Place of cooling racks. Enjoy warm and with a glass of milk

Other Delicious Christmas Cookie Recipes:

• Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe
• The Best Dark Chocolate and Oatmeal Cookies
• Best Sour Cream Cookies
• Oatmeal Cocoa Chippers
• Old Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
• Easy Cowboy Cookie Bars
• Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bar Cookies

Printable Recipe for Loaded White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies