Christmas is coming and I thought of baking some homemade cookies to give away as Christmas presents. It should be better than buying presents (unwanted most of the time).
I was thinking of chocolate chip cookies but I changed my mind when I saw organic dried cranberries at the supermarket. I saw myself eating crunchy cranberry cookies with bits of chewy sweet cranberries.
Okay, time for a test bake. I have not baked for a long time and I should definitely test out the recipe and refresh my baking skills.
Ingredients
2 cups (260 grams) organic unbleached flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup (150 grams) white sugar
12 tablespoons (175 grams) unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
1/4 cup (60 ml) orange juice
125 grams dried cranberries
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C)
- Let the butter stand at room temperature to soften
- Line your baking sheets with parchment paper
- Sift the flour and add the salt and sugar
- Mix well
- Cut the softened butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture
- Use your hand to mix the butter and flour into a dry batter
- Add the egg and mix well into the batter
- Add the orange juice and mix well with a wooden spoon
- The batter should be of drop consistency by now
- Fold in the dried cranberries
- Place spoonfuls of batter onto the parchment paper
- Bake them for about 10 minutes or until golden brown
- Remove from oven to cool
Cranberry Cookies Batter
All lined up
Cranberries cookies in the oven
Final Product
These cranberry cookies are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Just the way I like it.
