These Chocolate, Orange & Cranberry Cookies are simply divine!
I love dried fruit in my cookies. The chewiness and the difference in texture against a crunchy shell cookie with a soft center...🤤🤤.
These are one of my mum's favourite cookies, she loves the combination of orange and cranberries, so i made these cookies for her and realized..i had created something soooo good. Fruity cookies are great, but i thought i thought..why not add some chocolate chips?! I mean.. how does chocolate not make every baked good 100x better! Why add one chocolate chip flavour when you can add two! 🤭
These cookies are so moreish, you can't just eat one. Once you pop you won't be able to stop!
Recipe
Delicious milk & white chocolate chip chunky cookies, with a hint of orange & chewy dried cranberries !
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Chill Time - 1+ hours
Cook Time: 12-16 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 18-20
Author: Zainab
Ingredients:
300gs plain flour
100gs soft light brown sugar
75gs granulated sugar
1 & 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
125gs unsalted butter
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon orange extract
100gs dried cranberries
110gs white chocolate chips
125gs milk chocolate chips
Method:
1. Attach the paddle attachment to your stand mixture and add into your bowl, the butter and sugars. Beat for around 2 minutes on a medium speed or until the mixture has creamed together nicely. Alternatively you can do this part with an electric whist of with a wooden spoon.
2. Once creamed together, go ahead and add the egg and orange extract. Cream together for 20-30 seconds on a medium speed.
3. Add in the plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, and salt and beat until a cookie dough is formed.
4. Then add in the dried cranberries and both milk & white chocolate chips. Continued to mix until they are evenly distributed in the cookie dough.
5. Using a weighing scale, weigh out 50gs of cookie dough. Push together very gentility to form a rustic cookie dough ball.
6. Once you have formed one cookie dough ball, place on a metal baking tray or in a medium sized non-stick roasting dish (see notes for the one that i like to use).
7. Form other balls and place in the freezer for a minimum of 1 hour.
Note: I like to freeze mine for about 3 hours or even leave some in the freezer and bake as i go.
8. Preheat the oven to 200C/392F.
Note: If you oven runs hot, bake between 160C-180C/320F-356F. Be sure to keep checking on the cookies and you don't want them to burn. You just want them lovely and golden brown.
9. Remove the cookie dough balls from the freezer and place on a baking tray/sheet lined with parchment paper.
Note: Be sure to keep around a 4-5 inch gap between each cookie as they will spread out! I use a standard sized baking tray and put 6-8 cookie dough balls on the tray.
10. Place in the oven and cook for 12-16 minutes or until the edges have slight browned and the cookies have flattened as shown in the photos above. If you find that they are cooking too fast, lower the temperature in your oven, vice versa.
11. Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave to cool for 20 minutes on the same baking tray. This will allow the bottom of cookies to still cook, giving it that lovely crisp bottom.
12. Once fully cooled, enjoy! ☺️
Notes
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for around 4 days.
These are best eaten on the day of baking, but can be revived by microwaving for 15-30 seconds, or putting into a hot oven for 2-3 minutes!
You can freeze the raw cookie dough for up to three months. If you are baking straight from frozen after some time, add 3-5 minutes to the baking time!
If you prefer your cookies flatter, you can squish them down slightly before baking but I don't do this personally as i like the chunkiness!
If you would like to make larger cookies then you can weight out 100gs of cookie dough each. This should make about 10 cookies. They will need to be baked for around 15-20 minutes.
I use these trays to freeze all my cookie balls. They're great as they are non-stick!
Calories per cookies: 226
Nutrition per cookies: Fat - 9.3g, Carbohydrates - 32.1g, Protein - 2.9g.
Hope you all enjoyed this recipe! If you do use this recipe be sure to tag me. My Instagram Page is: Bakewithzainab.
Also be sure to comment down below with any questions you may have.
Lots of love
Zainab xx
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