Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Put it this way, my hubs was so stingy when I was placing these in our Christmas cookie give-away trays that he was driving me kinda crazy. He kept on reminding me not to give out too many seeing he was fearing that there wouldn’t be enough for him. These delicious cookies were loved by all. So yummy and a definite make-again and again. I didn’t have enough orange zest, so added some orange extract to compensate. Yum, yum, yum. Thank you, Teresa, for sharing. Made it “For your Consideration” tag game.

I didn't catch the part where you don't have to use the mixer, so I did and it seemed to work fine! These were so wonderful! I had to use milk chocolate chips b/c I mistakenly thought I had white chips, but didn't! I took a tip from Mikekey and added some orange extract. I think they were just as yummy with the darker chocolate - maybe they'd be prettier with white, but that's ok. DH loved them, too! BTW, one navel orange was 99 cents; a whole bag of cuties was 1.99, so I bought the little cuties - flavor of tangerines is similar enough to that of oranges.

My new favorite cookie! I thought the prep was a novel way to do things - and I love that you don't have to dirty up the Kitchen Aid mixer!!! I made these for a ladies get-together and didn't catch that the dough needed to be refrigerated for hours. I was only able to give it 30 minutes in the fridge and used a cookie scoop to form the cookies. They turned out beautifully! Unfortunately, I was running late for my meeting (due to the 30 minutes!) and I didn't get a photo of the dozens of cookies. By the time I got home, DH had eaten all but one of the ones left on the rack - so here's the photo of the ONE.

These are rich, soft and chewy. I made one change—I used half orange extract and half the vanilla, for more orange flavor. Orange and cranberries are so good together and then add white chocolate and I’m over the moon.