White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies Dessert Recipe

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Don't forget to click the link below. Please like, share, and subscribe to my YouTube channel. See you next time. I've got one third cup of dry cranberries. You can actually get these cranberries in your store and it usually goes into salads. So this is the cranberries that I'm using. It's dry cranberries and usually they put these raisin nets. They call them sometimes. I'm taking these raisin nets and I'm going to rough chop these. We've got one stick of unsalted butter setting out for about an hour to get very very soft for room temperature. I have a large bowl and I have this large bowl because we don't want that flour to be flopping around into this bowl. So if you have a hand mixer which is one of these, you can do it with this. You can actually do it with a spoon or if you have one of those kitchen aids you can also use that. I'm showing you how to do it without all those fancy things which I do have a hand mixer I'm going to use but you don't have to. You can always have your spoon. Okay so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to open up this butter and we're going to put it in here. I want all of this butter because you know I'm going to show you why what I'm talking about. I put it in there but look at all that butter that's left behind. Okay I don't know. I want all that butter because that's my cookie recipe. So I'm going to take my spatula and I'm going to scrape the rest of that butter up. Getting all that butter. Okay these cookies are going to make a small batch of cookies. If you want more cookies and you're doing a lot of cookies for a bunch of kids or you just want them in your cookie jar, just double everything that I do and you can make a bunch of cookies. Okay I've got a half cup of brown sugar. Some people want to do light. Some people want to do dark. I like light. I think I just don't want my cookies all real dark and because if it's dark they're baked dark. I don't want them dark to me. I mean but you can do them any way that you want. You put this over here on the side and let's go ahead and let's cream this up until it gets nice and smooth. And I'm going to start on low. Okay I take it that's why I got a large bowl. I take it from the side and pull it up and I let it spin so it can stay in the bowl so I can get majority of my ingredients back into the bowl. Now I'm going to scrape this down before I add my other sugar. Making sure I get all that ingredients inside this bowl. This is a half cup of granulated white sugar. So I'm going to add that in also and we're going to mix that just like we mix our first. Let's mix this until it's light and fluffy but we don't want to over mix this. Perfect. Look at that and I'm just smashing this. Mixing. I'm trying to get all the butter and everything off the sides of the bowl. Okay the next step we're going to do is we're going to be putting in our other ingredients. Okay now we're going to add in a half teaspoon of baking soda and make sure you get all that baking soda and I'm going to make sure I beat that. I don't want that to go in there. Yeah okay great baking soda. You're going to mix this baking soda in your cookies well. Very well. You're going to mix it. You're going to like just fold it. You're going to fold it and smash it in there and you want it to be mixed very well. Okay now we have a half teaspoon of salt. We're going to do the exact same thing we did with the baking soda. Ready and make sure you incorporate this just as well as you did the baking soda because we want all that in. Okay now there you go. Now I'm going to crack this egg and I'm going to make sure it's not this color or anything and that is a beautiful beautiful egg and I want all I don't know why I'm like that. I want everything because they said one egg one egg. Let me clean up my hands. I don't want nothing to spray. Okay so if you want to you could take this egg and you can beat it up with your hand mixer just to get it smooth if you want or you can do it by hand. So I'm going to get that egg out and when I said what I said earlier I mean I wanted to wash my hands. I didn't want to have any salmonella anywhere on my hands or on the table or any of that. Okay so I'm going to mix this by hand and like I said if you want to get the blender you can do that and you can mix it with a blender or even a handheld blender that you have to you know turn. They got those little turning ones. Those are good too. When I was little we didn't have all those gadgets. Well my mother wasn't a really a big cook. She cooked but it wasn't her strong thing to cook. I was the biggest cook. I love cooking so she just got what was necessary to to make you know the food with but she never did you know go out and get gadgets and stuff because that wasn't her thing. She didn't like cooking. You know some people like cooking have a passion for cooking and some people don't. Some people's like hey you know I'm just gonna throw this together as long as I eat who cares. You know what I'm saying. I'm like having actually passion for cooking. I always did. That's why I started cooking when I was about six years old. I just started making cakes, cookies, I mean whole dinners. I really wasn't a baker as much. I was really a savory person and that's what I stuck with. I mean I can bake but I just don't bake like that. Okay I've got one teaspoon of vanilla extract. You want to make sure you get the good stuff. I've got to get another one. I got to scrape this out. I have to have all of it. I love these spatulas. I use them for everything. I've got a whole bunch but I got my favorites. I keep using them and use them until they look so raggly. I've got more. I've got tons of these things but I've got my favorites and then once they get old I get rid of them and guess what I replace them with the new ones I got in there. I mean I love spatulas. Okay I'm going to do the same just like the mixer. Just pretend you're a mixer. That's what I do. Just pretend like you're a mixer and you're mixing it up and you're getting it in there good and you're mixing and you're folding and you're making sure you get all of that good stuff in there. That's what I do. And it's becoming a nice creamy velvety color. This is how I used to make it when I was younger. I had no gadgets. Honey those cakes will be so soft. These cookies will be so good because I put my love into it. If I had to do this all night I would. Okay this is one cup of all-purpose flour. So we're going to add half and half. So we're going to add a little bit in and then we're going to kind of take it and we're going to kind of fold it in and smash it and fold it. Make sure it gets really incorporated. And while I'm starting to do this, the simple fact is I want this to be incorporated as much. Then I'm going to take the rest. I'm just going to add the rest. Anything that's stuck I told you I hate. I have to get everything and I'm going to continue to do the same. Okay we're going to mix in one third cup of ocean spray diced cranberries that we cut up. So we want these all in here. And then we're going to fold spread it and like fold these in and give it a beautiful texture. A beautiful look. We're going to smash this and make sure they're all in there. If you want more you can but you want to leave some cookie. You want to leave some cookie folks because you don't want all those cranberries in there. You have so much stuff in here that you won't even taste the cookie. You know. Okay I've got one cup of white chocolate chips. You can get any white chocolate chips that you prefer to get. Make sure you get a good white chocolate chip that would melt really good. I hate those chocolate. I mean I hate those white chocolates and those other you know the dark chocolates when you get them in your baking cookies and they don't melt. So make sure you get a really good cookie. Get a good brand of your choice. One cup. We're going to do the same by tossing these around just like we did with the cranberries. Okay after you mix these up they're going to be a little bit like a little sticky but once you can actually cook with them now or you can put it in a container put it in the refrigerator and they'll thicken up and all you got to do is get your scooper or get a spoon and scoop them out and then you can put them on a tray and get to baking. I've got a takeout container that I have and I am going to scoop all that cookie dough in here because when I get ready to take my my ice cream scooper I can easily just scoop it out and put them on my tray and bake this. So make sure you get all of this out and use another spatula if you got it or your hand or whatever and you just want to scrape this off and make sure you get all of this good stuff in here because that is all okay. This is my chocolate chip cookie and it's stiffened up really good it's stiff and all I gotta do is just dip out and all I have to do is get to baking. These are great to make for your kids for guests that are coming over for you know a party or just to get together with guys or get together with the women it depends on who you want to get together just make a little snack you know kids really love it grandkids oh my god grandkids they'll love you forever. I mean these cookies you know if they don't like berry you always got chocolate chip. Think about this that recipe to make the cookie is a simple basic recipe. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put these in the refrigerator overnight I want these to stiffen up and we're going to come back and we're going to bake these off. Now why am I doing this because I want all those flavors the vanilla the the the the raisins the the white chocolate to all get in there and and mix with all those flavors so it can be a wonderful delicious cookie. So 24 hours and let's bake. Okay we're back it has been a good 24 hours and our cookies have set up and got firm so what we're gonna do we put them in here I've got a little um ice cream scoop that I am going it's a small one you can do them as big as you want them and I have a non-baking sheet pan that I'm going to I don't have to worry about greasing this I don't have to worry about doing any of this it's already a silicone so it's good I love these things guys all you got to do is just wipe this down and they're ready to go. So I'm just going to add a couple of cookies on here and I'm making sure I get all the good stuff you know the raisinettes that's in here white chocolate and since I want to let them spread out I'm not gonna put them close to each other because I want these babies to spread out and do its thing I don't want them to bump heads. Okay so this is going in the oven to about 350 you can time it for seven minutes all the way up to 15 minutes keep checking I don't know how well you like your cookies I don't know if you like them really really hard very very soft everybody cooks cookies the way they want so long as it gets a nice light golden brown on top or around the edges it's time to take them out okay these are my white chocolate cranberry cookies let's get some people take these off now I'm gonna pick these up and they're still a little warm I just like my cookies warm they're still kind of setting up but I want warm not not hard nice warm soft now the longer you leave in your cookies the harder your cookies will get because if you like them crunchy leave them in longer if you like them really soft take them out a little early make sure they're not totally raw so give it about 12 or 13 minutes to get them soft but if you like them a little softer give them about 11 or 12 minutes you know these are about 13 minutes let's say about 13 and five seconds is what I did for these cookies and here they are this is white chocolate cranberry cookies I hope you enjoy us making this white chocolate and cranberry cookies because guess what I didn't make this by myself I had the help of you you and me we did this together and we're going to keep on doing plenty more just be sure to hey today we're going to be doing meatball subs we're going to do everything homemade and I'm going to add a little creole seasoning it's going to give this a great stir that guy's looking good to go I hear you so that was about four to five