Soft cookies filled with cranberries and a little white chocolate, Cranberry Cookies make a perfect snack and are great for Christmas time. These Cranberry Cookies are a Christmas favourite in our house. With cranberries in every bite and a little bit of white chocolate, these cookies make a perfect snack around the holidays.
Originally published in November 2021, updated December 2025.
Cranberries are a holiday favourite, but usually, they are used in cranberry sauces and jellies. We like cranberries baked into cookies. We also enjoy these cookies around Thanksgiving.
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Ingredients For Cranberry Cookies
To make these cookies, you will need:
- Cranberries
- Butter.
- White sugar.
- Egg.
- Orange juice.
- Vanilla extract.
- All-purpose flour.
- Baking soda.
- Salt.
- White chocolate.
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Prepping The Cranberries To Make Cookies
While most cookies with cranberries use whole fresh or dried cranberries, these cookies use chopped cranberries. But not just chopped, cranberries are finely chopped so that there is cranberry in every bite.
To get the cranberries chopped finely, first, the cranberries are frozen. We start with 2 cups of fresh cranberries and freeze them overnight. Once frozen, the cranberries are pulsed in a blender or food processor until broken down into small pieces.
Frozen whole cranberries can also be used if you can’t find fresh ones.
Why Use Frozen Cranberries?
The cranberries have to be frozen, or they will just turn to mush when you process them.
Freezing fresh cranberries before pulsing in the blender will help achieve the right consistency for the cranberries. It also helps keep the cranberries from turning into a smoothie-like texture.
If you enjoyed this cranberry recipe, you may also like our White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies.
Chocolate In Cranberry Cookies
There is a small amount of white chocolate in these cookies, which adds just a hint of flavour to the Cranberry Cookies. They also add a bit more sweetness to offset the tartness of the cranberries. There are two ways to add white chocolate to the batter.
You can add white chocolate chips, which is an easy way to add chocolate to the cookies.
Or you can add a chopped white chocolate bar to the batter. This is my preference because higher-quality white chocolate can be used, which adds to the richness of the cookies.
Serving Cranberry Cookies
Cranberry cookies are a fall treat for us. We like to serve them around Thanksgiving and up until Christmas.
The warm flavours in these cookies are perfect with warm drinks like coffee, tea and hot chocolate.
Storing Cranberry Cookies
These cookies will stay fresh for up to a week in an airtight container at room temperature.
Alternatively, cranberry cookies can be frozen for up to three months. Thaw the cookies at room temperature before serving.
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Cranberry Cookies
Equipment
- Blender/ Food Processor
- Electric Mixer
Ingredients
- 2 cups cranberries, frozen
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1½ cups white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp orange juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup chopped white chocolate
Instructions
- In a blender or food processor, pulse frozen cranberries until cranberries look finely chopped.
- In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar, until creamy and smooth.
- Beat in egg, orange juice and vanilla extract.
- Add flour, baking soda and salt. Mix until just combined.
- Fold in cranberries and white chocolate.
- Refrigerate 2 hours to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Drop cookie dough by tablespoons onto prepared cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until edges start to brown and centre of cookie is still slightly wet.
- Let cool on pan for 3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Store in an air tight container.
i love any new ways to use cranberries – these are so good! i did add more white chocolate chips – they’re my fave!
Just perfect for the festive season. They look yummy.
Such delicious cookies and wonderful for the holidays! Have to make two batches – one for me, and one to share 🙂
These cranberry cookies are going on my Holiday cookie plate this year. They are fabulous.
Love these cranberry cookies! They were a big hit in our house and they are easy to make too. Definitely going to be one of the cookies we make for Christmas each year.