Instead of vanilla, brandy is used to flavor these white chocolate cranberry cookies. Excellent for Christmas or Thanksgiving!
Prep Time: | 15 mins |
Cook Time: | 10 mins |
Total Time: | 25 mins |
Servings: | 24 |
Yield: | 2 dozen |
Ingredients
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon brandy
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- ¾ cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 2 cookie sheets.
- Beat brown sugar, white sugar, and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until creamy. Add egg and brandy and beat until incorporated.
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- Combine flour and baking soda in a separate bowl. Stir flour mixture into the butter mixture until just combined. Fold in cranberries and white chocolate chips.
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- Drop spoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheets.
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- Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, switching racks halfway through; cookies will still appear slightly doughy.
- Remove from the oven and let cool briefly on the cookie sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
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Nutrition Facts
Calories | 147 kcal |
Carbohydrate | 22 g |
Cholesterol | 19 mg |
Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
Protein | 2 g |
Saturated Fat | 4 g |
Sodium | 64 mg |
Sugars | 15 g |
Fat | 6 g |
Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These had so much flavor and I just loved them so much! I made these for my school and my baby brother. They really enjoyed them and so did I! I did not put brandy in my cookie though. However, I added some white chocolate chips! So good! My new faves!
The cookies are delicious and easy to make. I used vanilla extract, and added one cup of white chips. The next time I will use 1 1/2 cups.
I used my silicone baking sheets instead of greasing the pans and they worked great.
Love them my new favorite cookie now chocolate chip cookies are #2.
Minus the Sherry I have made these with both cranberries and chips, just cranberries and just chips. Depends on what I have. Family really likes these.
Good cookie. Gave some to my neighbor for Christmas and she loved them. Made it according to recipe except I used spiced rum instead of brandy, fresh cranberries, and 1/2 the sugar. Next time I will add some salt and more butter.
New favorite cookies!! Has a bag of white chocolate chips and no idea what to make. These are delicious! Love the cranberry & white chocolate combination. Definitely will be making these again.
These are delicious but definitely needs 1/2 teaspoon of salt
They were tasty! I was craving a white chocolate and cranberry cookie! 🙂 Can’t wait to make again! – I replaced the brandy with vanilla. I also used an egg replacer from Bob’s Red Mill as I didn’t have a egg. Everything worked out thankfully! Mine could’ve used less oven time (might’ve been the egg replacer).
I made these exactly as the recipe stated, and they were perfect. Depending on your size dollop of cookie, just watch for the under edges to brown. Mine were bigger, so they needed about 12 minutes, then the 5 minutes to rest on the sheet. The texture of the cranberry adds the chewy component to the soft and sandy base of the cookie. Outstanding! I did all the steps in my Kitchen Aid mixer until the berries and chips.
Perfect just as they are very moorish made some to take for morning tea and by the time everyone had eaten one there were very few left but what a great recipe will definitely be using it again and again
I didn’t have brandy so I made recipe with vanilla extract instead. I made them for a meeting and everyone gobbled them up. Will make again and will try with brandy.
These are dangerous they’re so good! Only thing I changed was using vanilla extract because I don’t have brandy. Yum!
Didn’t change the recipe at all, and my husband is in love with these. The brandy was a tasty swap, I might try it in more baking recipes that call for vanilla extract. Trust the recipe when it says to pull them when they still look just a little underdone; I pulled when the edges were JUST browning and the middle looked really soft, and after cooling they were perfect. Instead of 2 dozen, I actually got 3 dozen using a 1-tbsp scooper.
Fantastic. Reading other users’ reviews, I used 3/4 the original amount of white and brown sugar, and added a pinch of salt. I used reduced-sugar dried cranberries. If you can only find sweetened, you may want to reduce the sugar just a bit more. I didn’t have brandy, and so substituted 1 tbsp bourbon and 1/2 tsp vanilla. Absolutely delicious, and perfectly sweet. Looking forward to making again.
These are outstanding and I’m not a frequent reviewer of things. Just don’t overbake! Stick with the recipe cook time. More than 10 minutes will probably be too long.
I did not have Brandy so I just used 1 tsp of vanilla, so good
These were good, but not amazing. They had a great texture, weren’t too sweet, and the white chocolate and cranberries make a good combination. However, I thought they were a little bland. I did add pecans and a teaspoon of vanilla to the original recipe, which I think added to the flavor a bit. What I believe is needed, though, is either a half tsp of salt, or the use of salted butter (I used unsalted). I’ll try them again with that tweak!
I made these cookies and they were fabulous. I did replace the cranberries with macadamia nuts in the first batch I made and my son loved them. The second time I made these I used milk chocolate chips instead of white chips and instead of cranberries I used dried cherries and I loved them and so did everyone else who tried them. This is a very versatile recipe and a good base cookie recipe if you love chewy cookies. Thank you this was exactly the type of recipe I was looking for .
This is the most amazing cookie!! The light cranberry flavor mingles throughout the whole cookie so nicely! This is def getting made again! Followed the recipe exactly.
Delicious and easy cookie. Only change was to use 1 tsp. vanilla instead of brandy. Cookies do not spread much, so I flatten a bit prior to baking.