Cranberry White Chocolate cookies

“2/3 C butter, melted and cooled until slightly warm

2 TBSP of honey

1 1/2C light brown sugar

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla

2C all purpose flour

1/2C old fashioned oats

1/2 tsp each: salt, cinnamon and baking soda

1C dried sweetened cranberries

1/2 C chopped toasted hazelnuts or pecans

3/4C white chocolate chips



Preheat oven to 350*F

By hand blend together butter, sugar and honey. Add the egg and vanilla, mix well.

In a seperate bowl combine flour, oats, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Add to butter mixture and mix until combined well. Stir in remainin ingredients. (This is a really stiff dough and I find it's easier to mix in the remaining ingredients with my hands)

Place dough 2" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake on center rack of the oven, until edges are lightly browned and centers are still soft, about 12-15 minutes. Cool completely. Makes about 2 1/2 dozen 2" cookies

This recipe is from Mariani Cranberries, and may be found at their website: www.marianifruit.com

Enjoy!”

“I don't see why I have to go to all that trouble when you just live down the street! Okay, a few streets. Well, a couple of freeways, a few mile roads and then some streets...oh forget it...I printed it out:)”

“sorry, but "White Chocolate" Ain't Chocolate! <grrrrrrrrrrrrrr>

It's just cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids.


Hey, I just rediscovered this a few days ago....


THE PRACTICALLY PERFECT COOKIE

We wanted a cookie with a chewy interior, crunchy edges, and a well-
blended flavor. Above all, we wanted a cookie with a high overall chocolate
impact to give a sensuous rush to the chocoholic. After much experimentation
and perhaps a few cumulative inches added to staffers' waistlines, we
created a cookie with all those assets.

Our recipe makes 40 medium-sized cookies.

-- Consumer Reports (Feb '85)


Ingredients:

2¼ C. Flour
1 level tsp. Baking Soda
1 level tsp. Salt
¾ C. Sugar
¾ C. Dark Brown Sugar, packed
2 sticks (½ lb.) Sweet Butter, room temp.
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
2 Large Eggs
1 12 oz. pkg. Nestlé Semisweet Chocolate Chips



Procedure:

Preheat oven to 375˚ F.

1. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and set aside.

2. Use a stand-type electric mixer to mix the two sugars briefly at low speed.
Add the butter in small gobbets, mixing first at low speed and then at high.
Beat the mix until it's pale, light, and very fluffy.

3. Add the vanilla at the mixer's lowest speed, then beat at high speed for a
few seconds. Add the eggs, again at the lowest speed, switching to high
speed for the final second or so. The eggs should be well beaten in, and
the mix should look creamed, not curdled.

4. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt, one-half cup at a time, mixing at low
speed for about one minute, then at high for a few more seconds.

5. Scrape down the bowl's sides with a spatula, add the chocolate chips, and
mix at low speed for about ten seconds. If need be, scrape the bowl's sides
again and mix for a few more seconds.

6. Put tablespoonfuls of the mix on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until
the cookies are pale golden brown (nine minutes in an electric oven, 10 to
11 minutes in a gas one). Remove and let them cool on a rack. Enjoy!

(Yield: 40 medium-sized cookies)



And if you're REALLY hard core, you can wash 'em down with THIS Stuff:



CHOCOLATL

This is the correct spelling, and if the descriptions of the Cortez party
are correct, then this is the drink. When the Aztecs were drinking a
beverage made from the cacao tree it tasted nothing like what we know in
our time. The drink that Montezuma loved, and supposedly drank by the
potful, had hot pepper in it and no sugar at all. After reading some of the
responses of the Europeans to the beverage, I have developed the
Following easy recipe. I doubt that you will be drinking this every morning
but it is fun to try now and then.

-- Glen's MM Recipe


Ingredients

2 c. chicken soup stock
½ tsp. plain cocoa powder
½ tsp. Vanilla extract
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
Tabasco to taste


Instructions

That's it. Heat the chicken stock and season it with the cocoa, Tabasco,
vanilla, and cinnamon.

Serves 2



now, I'm going back to SLEEP, <G>”

“Those were some fine cookies Sass.It was nice meeting you and Birch you guys are cool.”

“I think it would be a whole lot easier if I was to just hike with you more often!”

“Thanks Trekkingirl.


OKAY EVERYONE, please mentally change the title of this thread and recipe to "Cranberry white chocolate-like confection cookies", so Mr. Tilt is happy. ;)”

“M B Gooooood!”

“Sassy, YOU DA MAN!!!!

Errrr...uhhhh...well, you know what I mean.

Anyway, your cranberry white chocolate cookies are the greatest! I really enjoyed meeting you and birch this past weekend.”

“Hey, I had one of those at FYAO III!

I was lucky enough to get one before they were gone!

It melted in my mouth!

No, really, I had to thaw it a bit in order to chew it!”

“Speakin' of cranberries, my mom makes cranberry/raisin pie.

I suppose its about half and half on the fruit.

The tart cranberries and sweet raisins set each other off nicely.”

“I think this is the same recipe for the cookies that traveled with tarabull and Buddha Bear on their way to FYAO? Those cookies kicked major Anna Nicole Smith-sized a$$, so thanks for posting the recipe! :-)”

“Dat's a BIG A$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Hey Tom, you don't have the recipe for your mom's pie do you? Birch has talked about cranberry raisen pie every thanksgiving since I've known him, and I have yet to find a recipe..”

“Sassafras, I could ask.

I beleive she starts with un-cooked cranberries and boils them with sugar as for canning.

The raisins are stirred in when the berries are tender.......corn starch is used to thicken the fruit.

This is all speculation here.

OK, I have a mission....you'll be hearing from me!”

“Thanks Tom! You rock.”

“All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you. Those were great cookies and after I ate one I really didn't want to share them but since TT'ers are great people I just had to.”

“It was my pleasure really. You all crack me up, the way you go on about them! Don't you poor deprived people ever get homemade cookies? ;)”

“NO!”

“NO!!!”

“Yes, whenever I make em!”

“no :(”

“Depraved?!?”

“I am currently excepting donations for free homemade cookies.... Send them to: Free
23 Willtakeanything St.
California


Thank you :)”

“What? No takers on the CHOCOLATL?

What a buncha weanies, LOL”

“Mmmmmmm, weenies and beer!”

“weenie roast?”

“hey Watch It with that coathanger...”

“Sass --

The cookies sound good.

a) Tilt is right . . .it just ain't chocolate !! ;-)

b) my wife makes a receipe at christmas that is cranberries, orange and other things . . .and chocolate chips.

c) the best chocolate chip cookies are from the back of the Nestles chip bag, with the following modifications.

c) 1. The total sugar is 1.5 cups. (3/4 white, 3/4 brown). Change the ratio to 1/2 cup white, 1 cup brown; and,

2. DOUBLE the vanilla. I use Pensy's double strength vanilla and when I run out of that, I just use two teaspoons instead of the one that the receipe calls for.

And for God's sake use real butter!! (we have a friend that uses margarine and half the chips to make "diet CC cookies". What is the point!!)

My $.02!!”

“I'm not saying it isn't Tasty... I'm just saying it isn't Chocolate, <GRIN>

In fact, I had a fairly delectible cocoa butter candy bar just a few days ago. It had a paste inside like smooth peanut butter, only it was Pistachio.”

“There is a God. Thanks for the recipe. I do get homemade cookies, when I make them. I will let you know how these turn out for me. As you know, it is sometimes difficult to cook when you have your 2yr old "helping"”

“thanks for the recipe sass!!
i AM deprived of homemade cookies. those store bought ones just don't cut it...”

“Yes, I do get homemade cookies... When Sass makes them for me. :-)))

Artex - Yes, these are the same cookies Sass sent w/ me to FYAO.

Chocolate Lovers - There is no reason you can't substitute the white chocolate for regular chocolate chips. I'm sure they would be quite delicious.”

“The Albertson's grocery store near my house sells cranberry white chocolate chip cookies for $.33 each. I usually eat one while I shop.”

“can't wait my mother-in-law is coming out from Stoughton Wi in a couple of weeks, she makes a real mean pear tart. Makes my eyes water just thinking about it. I like that so much I once had her UPS me one. got a little shook up but mmm mmm good it was.”

“she did What and it made your Eyes water?”

“If these are the same cookies that were in Tarabull's "care package" at FAYO, then they ROCK. They were the PIMPIEST of all PIMPED cookies.

Where is the form for me to place my order?”

“hmmm, maybe I should go into business....”