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Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

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

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400 Degrees
  • Cut cold butter into tablespoon fragments
  • Mix butter on low, until softened
  • Mix butter with both sugars and vanilla pudding mix, on low speed until creamed.
  • Crack eggs and add to dough. Add orange zest and extract, Mix on low until well combined.
  • Add flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  • Pulse the mixer to incorporate ingredients, do not over mix!
  • Fold in white chocolate chips and dried cranberries
  • Mound up cookie dough into 5 oz balls for large cookies or 2.5-3 oz for small cookies.
  • 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.
  • Bake for 9-12 minutes (cookies will be done when the tops are light brown)
  • Let cool on warm cookie sheet for at least 30 minutes (the cookies will finish baking on sheet!)