Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

INGREDIENTS:

• 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 6-ounce package Ocean Spray® Craisins® Original Sweetened Dried Cranberries
• 2/3 cup white chocolate chunks or chips

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375ºF.

Using an electric mixer, beat butter or margarine and sugar together in a medium mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, mixing well. Combine oats, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate mixing bowl. Add to butter mixture in several additions, mixing well after each addition. Stir in sweetened dried cranberries and white chocolate chunks.

Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack.

Makes approximately 2 1/2 dozen cookies

Source: back of Ocean Spray Cranberry flavored Craisins.

I had my eyes on this recipe for a couple weeks. My cousins from California and Boston are visiting and I wanted to make something. We already had everything in the house so it was easy. Unfortunately I made the cookies very late, I actually just finished. It was a frustrating baking session because the oven bakes so unevenly and the baking sheets are very dark so they make the cookies bake faster, and also I did not have enough baking sheets. To improvise I used the pizza stone which cooked the cookies very nicely. I think next time I will bake cookies in single batches, not all at once.