White Chocolate Cranberry Hazelnut Sugar Cookies Recipes

WHITE CHOCOLATE AND CRANBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and brandy. Combine the flour and baking soda; stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the white chocolate chips and cranberries. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. For best results, take them out while they are still doughy. Allow cookies to cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIP HAZELNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Coarsely chop 1/2 cup hazelnuts; set aside. Melt 2 tablespoons butter. In a food processor, combine melted butter and remaining hazelnuts. Cover and process until the mixture forms a crumbly paste; set aside., In a bowl, cream the remaining butter. Beat in the sugars. Add egg and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in ground hazelnut mixture until blended. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to batter and mix just until combined. Stir in chips and reserved chopped hazelnuts., Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2-in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake until lightly browned, 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.

WHITE CHOCOLATE CRANBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheet with parchment paper.
• With an electric mixer, cream the butter and both sugars together until smooth. Add the vanilla and egg, mixing well. Sift together the flour and baking soda. Spoon the flour mixture gradually into the creamed sugar mixture. Stir in the cranberries, white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts. Drop by heaping spoonfuls, about 2 tablespoons, onto the prepared baking sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake one sheet at a time until lightly golden on top and the edges are set, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on the sheet about 5 minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

RICH WHITE CHOCOLATE CRANBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Beat butter and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into creamed butter mixture, beating until 1 egg is fully incorporated before adding the next; add vanilla extract and mix well. Stir white chocolate chips, cranberries, and coconut into creamed butter mixture.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl; mix into the butter mixture until dough is thoroughly combined. Spoon dough in heaping spoonfuls onto a baking sheet, leaving 2 inches between each.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are slightly golden and center is partially soft, 10 to 13 minutes. Cool cookies on the baking sheet until soft and chewy.

WHITE CHOCOLATE CRANBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt and baking soda; gradually add to butter mixture and mix well. Stir in cranberries and chips., Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 375° until lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks.

CRANBERRY AND WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and oats. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine butter and sugars. Beat until smooth. Add egg and vanilla, and mix again.
• Add flour mixture and beat until well blended. Add cranberries, pecans and white chocolate chips, and mix gently until blended. Refrigerate bowl for 10 minutes.
• Line two baking sheets with a nonstick liner or parchment paper. Roll dough into balls (about 2 tablespoons per ball), and place them 1 1/2 inches apart on baking sheets. Press each ball gently with a fork to flatten it into a fat disk. Place sheets in oven on two racks. Bake just until cookies are pale gold, about 15 minutes; they will still be soft when hot. Cool cookies on sheet for 5 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.

WHITE CHOCOLATE CRANBERRY HAZELNUT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Let dough come to room temp and pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Flatten dough out into a "rectangle" with your hands.
• Pour the dried cranberries and hazelnuts over dough.
• Combine the dough into a ball mixing the dried cranberries and hazelnuts into the dough evenly.
• Once evenly combined make the dough back into a log.
• Take a sheet of wax paper and place log onto it.
• Roll dough up in the wax paper making the log about the same size as the orignal one you bought and then tighten the ends closed.
• Place in freezer for 15 minutes.
• Cut approximately 16 slices and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Cook for 13-15 minutes, or until cookie are a light golden brown all over.
• Cool cookies on rack.
• While cookies cool melt the white chocolate chips in microwave safe dish on 50% power for 90 seconds. Take dish out and stir. Place back in microwave on 50% power for 1 more minute. Take out and stir.
• Dip cookies in the melted white chocolate covering only 1/2 the cookie. Place on wax paper to dry.

CRANBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°. Grease bottom only of 13 x 9" pan with shortening and lightly flour (or spray pan then line bottom with parchment paper) .
• In large bowl, combine cake mix, butter, water, eggs, hazelnuts and orange peel with spoon until dough forms (some dry mix will remain). Stir in cranberries and baking chips. Spread evenly in pan.
• Bake 20 - 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour. For bars, cut into 7 rows by 5 rows.
• Icing: Mix icing ingredients with a fork until there are no lumps. Drizzle over cooled bars. Place a cherry half in center of bar. Let stand 30 minutes or until set.

RUM-DRUNK CRANBERRY HAZELNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine the cranberries and rum and microwave for about a minute. Let it sit for about 15 minutes so that the cranberries can get a nice, steady buzz.
• In a food processor (Unless you really like working with a mortar and pestle for a long time) combine the hazelnuts with the margarine until it has a rough paste consistency.
• Stir together the sugars in a large mixing bowl. Beat together the egg and vanilla extract and mix them with your hazelnut 'butter'.
• Sift together the flours, baking soda, salt, and spices. Add the dry stuff to the wet stuff a little bit at a time. Do some light stretching and get ready for a really good workout.
• When all of the flour mixture has made it into the sugar mixture, pop your dough ball in the fridge for about an hour or so.
• Roll the dough into little balls (about a spherical inch, maybe). Mix the reserved sugar, crushed hazelnuts, and cranberries in a small dish and press the dough spheres into dough patties in the mixture.
• Put the dough patties on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or a silpat if you've got it and bake each batch for roughly 8-10 minutes at 375°F You don't really need to worry about too much spreading as the nuts hold the melting point of the dough up pretty high. Cool the finished product completely on a cooling rack.
• Dunk these babies in some milk and revel in the deliciousness you've just created. Good job!