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Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

5 from 1 vote
An orange infused cookie packed with white chocolate chips and dried cranberries
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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 C Unsalted butter, COLD, cut into tablespoons
  • 3/4 C Packed brown sugar, light
  • 1/2 C Granulated Sugar
  • 2 large Eggs
  • 1 Small Package Instant Pudding Vanilla (Dry)
  • 2 tsp Orange Extract (or less, if you want less orange flavor)
  • 1/2 Tbsp Orange Zest
  • 1 C Cake Flour
  • 1 3/4 C All Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 bag White Chocolate Chips
  • ½-1 Cup Dried Cranberries

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 400 Degrees
  2. Cut cold butter into tablespoon fragments
  3. Mix butter on low, until softened
  4. Mix butter with both sugars and vanilla pudding mix, on low speed until creamed.
  5. Crack eggs and add to dough. Add orange zest and extract, Mix on low until well combined.
  6. Add flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  7. Pulse the mixer to incorporate ingredients, do not over mix!
  8. Fold in white chocolate chips and dried cranberries
  9. Mound up cookie dough into 5 oz balls for large cookies or 2.5-3 oz for small cookies.
  10. Place cookie dough balls on cookie sheet w/ parchment paper or silicone mats. Balls shouldn’t be perfectly round but rather tall mounds of dough.
  11. Bake for 9-12 minutes (cookies will be done when the tops are light brown)
  12. Let cool on warm cookie sheet for at least 30 minutes (the cookies will finish baking on sheet!)