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hot chocolate bar featuring white chocolate cranberry cookies and maple iced cookies
Recipe

White Chocolate Cranberry and Maple Cookies

  • Author: Lindsay
  • Prep Time: 45 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
  • Yield: 24 cookies
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

Cookie Dough

  • 1 1/2 cups salted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 4 cups all purpose flour
  • 4 teaspoons cornstarch
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda

Additional ingredients for White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

  • ¾ cup white chocolate chips
  • ¾ cup dried cranberries

Maple Frosting

  • ½ cup salted butter
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 ¾ cup powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoons maple extract
  • 2 tablespoons water or milk

 


Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Cream butter and sugars together until light in color and fluffy. It should take about 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then add to wet ingredients and mix until well combined. Cookie dough will be thick. Remove half of the cookie dough and place in a separate bowl. Stir in the white chocolate chips and dried cranberries. Make balls of cookie dough that are about 2 tablespoons in size for both versions of cookie dough. Place balls on cookie sheet at least 2 inches apart and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until edge are just turning golden. Allow cookies to cool on cookie sheet for about 5 minutes, then remove to cooling rack.
  3. Once maple cookies are cooled, make the frosting. Add butter and brown sugar to mixer bowl and beat until smooth. Add powdered sugar, maple extract and water or milk and mix until smooth. Ice cookies.
  4. Store cookies in air tight container until ready to serve.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 cookie
  • Calories: 375
  • Sugar: 34.9 g
  • Sodium: 241.5 mg
  • Fat: 17.7 g
  • Carbohydrates: 52 g
  • Protein: 3.2 g
  • Cholesterol: 57.3 mg