OATMEAL CRANBERRY PECAN COOKIES

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These Oatmeal Cranberry Pecan Cookies have a chewy, moist consistency and are jam-packed with a mixture of favorites: rolled oats, chocolate, pecans, and cranberries. Perfect for vacation baking!



INGREDIENTS

  • ¼ cup unsalted butter
  • 6 tablespoons impartial flavored oil (canola, melted coconut, etc.)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 enormous egg
  • 2 cups antique shaped oats + ¼ cup hot water
  • 1 cup all aim flour
  • 1 tablespoon flooring cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ⅓ cup each: dried cranberries, chopped pecans, chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Preheat the oven to 350.
  • In a bowl, combine butter, oil, and vanilla. Mash till butter is soft. Add in sugars and stir to cream them together, after which stir in an egg.
  • In a separate bowl, combine oats and hot water and let it sit for 5 minutes till oats are quite softened. Add them to the rainy mixture.
  • Add in flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt, and stir to mix all of it with the rainy mixture. Add on your mix-ins (no extra than 1 cup of whole diverse mix-ins).
  • Refrigerate dough for at the least 10 minutes.
  • Measure out tablespoon-sized cookies, and bake them onto parchment lined cookie sheets for 12 minutes, or till the bottoms are golden.
  • Let the cookies cool totally earlier than removal them from the baking sheet.



The holidays have crept up on us. Well, perhaps simply me. I’ve viewed vacation recipes on Pinterest for the reason that July. Here’s a tasty recipe for a few Oatmeal Cranberry Pecan Cookies.. a few chocolate got in there too!

This recipe ought to be attributed to my NULL fellow companions in crime tonight who equally relish oatmeal-based cookies as a lot as I do.

Next time, we plan on having fun with these with a mug of decadent darkish hot chocolate. For now, a few hot tea will do. It’s now not truly December yet, anyways.

And as a sidenote, for these of you who're extreme cookie lovers, I suggest investing in a nonstick silicone baking mat to suit a normal baking sheet (affiliate links). I use these for baking cookies, roasting veggies, baking fish, and extra – and it makes blank up a breeze with out any desire for greasing the pan!


NOTES
Skipping steps to enable the oats to take in moisture, or letting the dough sit earlier than baking, might consequence in flatter cookies than pictured.