This is the best Dried Cranberry Chocolate Cookies recipe ever! Take your regular chocolate chip to the next level. Soft and chewy and full of chocolate chips, those cookies’ flavor is unparalleled by any other recipe.
You will love biting into those soft, chewy, chocolaty cookies. This recipe has always been one of our most popular during the holiday season and year round.

And when you add dried cranberries and white chocolate to it, the flavor is exponentially off the charts.
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A very straightforward, amazingly delicious recipe that turns out perfectly every time.
My favorite and always go-to recipe during the holiday season. It is a great cookie to wrap up in a beautiful holiday bag and donate to your friends to bring to work or any gathering.
It’s a sure hit. Another great hit is this super delicious Butterscotch and Chocolate Chip Cookies , you will love them how chewy and tasty they are.
In this Article
- Chocolate and Dried Cranberries, Yummy!!
- Chocolate
- Dried Cranberries
- Here are a few helpful tips for the ingredients needed for this Dried cranberry chocolate chip cookie recipe
- Equipment you will need
- Baking tips and step-by-step instructions to make those beautiful chocolate cranberry cookies:
- Pro Tips
- Substitutions
- A quick note about parchment paper
- Storing your cookies
- What goes well with your cranberry chocolate chip cookies?
- If you enjoy these Dried Cranberry Chocolate Chips cookies, look at some of my other recipes!
- Dried Cranberry Chocolate Cookies
Chocolate and Dried Cranberries, Yummy!!
I created this recipe of dried cranberry chocolate cookies over ten years ago, and like clockwork, it is the first recipe my family asks for during the holidays.
I love to use and mix dark chocolate with white chocolate.
The blended flavor is just sinful and additive at every bite. But not all kinds of chocolate. Ghirardelli or Guittard and bittersweet chocolate for dark chocolate.
Chocolate
I love to use bittersweet dark chocolate. The flavor is deeper.
Being French, we take our chocolate very seriously. This means we do not skimp over and go to the best brands. We also always have dark chocolate, 75% and above, and never milk chocolate.
Dark chocolate is rich in flavor and makes any cookies or recipes taste fantastic.
Dark chocolate, in actuality, is also healthier for you as it contains high cocoa versus milk chocolate, which includes milk solids.
Dried Cranberries
Dried Cranberries are my favorite; I use them as often as possible. Leave them whole or chop them. I leave that up to you.
However, I would advise chopping the cranberries up if you have little ones at home.

Here are a few helpful tips for the ingredients needed for this Dried cranberry chocolate chip cookie recipe
This is a short introduction. The ingredient list is also brief. It includes essential items that you may already have in your pantry. Please read the recipe for complete instructions.
All-purpose flour: Unbleached is my choice because it is not chemically processed. I always sift the flour.
Rolled oats: Quick Quaker Oats are cut approximately smaller,r so they will cook faster.
Baking powder and baking soda: your leavening agent to increase the volume and lighten the texture of your cookies.
Unsalted butter: always unsalted so as not to change the flavor of your cookies. Ensure that it is at room temperature for the best performance.
Brown sugar: Sucrose sugar product has a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. Unrefined or partially unrefined.
Granulated sugar: also known as white sugar, table, or regular sugar.
Egg: consistently large and at room temperature
Pure Vanilla extract: Gives that beautiful flavor to the sugars and chocolate. This is one time that I insist you splurge on a good vanilla extract. The flavor will be optimal with this or any of your baking in the future.
Bittersweet chocolate chips: Higher cocoa content and less sugar. However, richer in flavor
White chocolate chips: sweet with a hint of vanilla
Dried Cranberries: The star of this dessert. Soft and chewy once baked.

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Baking tips and step-by-step instructions to make those beautiful chocolate cranberry cookies:
- Use parchment paper on your baking sheets. Easy to clean your baking sheet. The best benefit is that your cookie will not attach to the cookie sheet. Below is the link for the precut parchment paper sheets. Much easier. No need to change the parchment with each batch.
- Make sure you use unsalted butter at room temperature. Do not melt to gain time, as it will make your cookies flat with a shape instead.
- Always use eggs that are at room temperature as well.
- I use an ice cream scooper to make the perfect round with the same amount of dough for cookies. Easy and perfect each time.
- As not all ovens are the same, your dried cranberry chocolate cookies are done when the edges begin to brown and the center is still soft. Overbaking them can make it harder to enjoy them.
- Always let the baking sheet cool off completely before adding the second batch of cookies to bake. By doing it too soon, your cookies will burn faster.
- Let the cookies cool off on the baking sheet over a cookie wire rack for a few minutes. Transfer the dried cranberry chocolate cookies to a cookie sheet to completely cool off.
- Store in a closed glass container once they are completely cooled off. They will preserve for less than a week if no one gets to them sooner.

Pro Tips
- Make sure you use unsalted butter at room temperature. Do not melt to gain time, as it will make your cookies flat with a shape instead.
- To make the most perfect and best-cooked cookies that are all even, I use an ice cream scooper to create the perfect round with the same amount of cookie dough for each cookies. Easy and perfect each time.

Substitutions
Running to the store at the last minute for one ingredient can stop us from making the great recipe we want. Here are a few suggestions for substitutions shared by a dear friend and foodie who made this recipe and loves it.
- Raisins can substitute dried cranberries.
- Cinnamon chocolate chops instead of white chocolate chips.
- White or dark chocolate chips can be substituted with mini chocolate chips.
A quick note about parchment paper
I cannot live without parchment paper and always have it handy in my kitchen. When it comes to baking, it plays a significant role: always on the cookie sheet.
Sticking is nonexistent.
Storing your cookies
After completely cooling off, store them in a glass-sealed container for up to three days.
What goes well with your cranberry chocolate chip cookies?
Enjoy a glass of Moscato, Champagne, Brandy, or your most decadent red wine. This cookie will marry well with all of them.
A little dunking always makes the heart happy during the holidays or whenever you wish.
If you enjoy these Dried Cranberry Chocolate Chips cookies, look at some of my other recipes!
Products and Equipment used to create this sinful recipe.
Dried Cranberry Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 20 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature (12 ounces)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar, granulated
- 1 egg, large
- 1 egg, yolk
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup bittersweet chocolate chips,
- ¾ cup white chocolate chips,
- 1½ cup dried cranberries,
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325º.
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper
- In a medium bow,l mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter and both sugars at medium speed until creamy.
- Add the egg followed by the egg yolk and vanilla, beating well between additions and scraping down the side of the bowl. Beat in the dry ingredients. Add the chocolate chips and the dried cranberries and beat until well incorporated.
- Spoon heaping teaspoons, or use an ice cream scooper, of the dough onto the baking sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the cookies begin to brown at the edges.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets, and then transfer them to a rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Giangi’s Kitchen provides nutritional information, but these figures should be considered estimates, as a registered dietician does not calculate them.
- Course: Desserts
- Cuisine: American
- Occasion: Valentine’s Day, Christmas
- Season: Winter
- Type: Under 45 minutes
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Originally published on December 9, 2020.
NMV
Did you really mean 10 ounces of butter or should it have been 10 tablespoons? I have never seen a cookie recipe with shortening listed in ounces.
Please respond asap.
Thank you!
Giangi Townsend
Hi, sorry for the confusion, and thank you for bringing it up to my attention. it should be 20 tablespoons or 12 ounces.
I have corrected the recipe, and again thank you for catching my mistake.
Pam Hashimoto
This is my second time making these cookies. I must have used 10 T. of butter the first time around — this time I used 10 oz (which is actually 12 T) and they spread more and were crunchy. Since they don’t look like the cookies pictured, I guess it was just a typo in the recipe and it should be 10 T. rather than 10 oz? I liked the first batch better! (But both are good!)
Giangi Townsend
Hi Pam, it is 12 ounces or 20 tablespoons. Sorry for the confusion and I did fix the recipe card.
Enjoy!
Cpg
These cookies are 5 star- they are definitely Next Level!
Giangi Townsend
Thank you for your kind feedback. I am so happy you enjoyed them.
We cannot keep them in our cookie jar.
Enjoy!
Lynn
I would like to know how many cookies this recipe makes. I see it says serves 8, but it doesn’t say how many cookies are in a serving; so I cannot determine how many cookies this actually makes. With the amount of calories in a serving, I think it’s more than one cookie per serving?
Giangi Townsend
Hi Lynn,
Thank you for contacting me. My program does not allow me to enter the number of cookies. This recipe makes around 24 cookies.
Enjoy!
Cori
Cant wait to try these out! And I have all the ingredients in my cupboard right now! Merry Christmas!
Giangi Townsend
Merry Christmas to you too Cori! You will love them.
Happy Baking!
La Ivana
These look amazing! And so easy to make 🙂
Giangi Townsend
Thank you! They sure are
Shilpa
These cookies look so good. I love the use of dried cranberries in it. Great recipe for the holidays.
Giangi Townsend
Thank you! Yes, excellent during the holidays and a bit behind too 😋
Cheryl Weeks
I love cranberry and chocolate cookies, have to try this, looks yummy
Giangi Townsend
Thank you!
Dawn Conklin
These cranberry chocolate cookies are amazing! The cranberries add the perfect flavor with the chocolate. Everybody here loves them and we will definitely be making them again.
Giangi Townsend
Thank you so much for sharing that with me. I love to have feedback.
Jennifer
These cookies look so good. I am going to have to make a batch of these for the holidays this year.
Giangi Townsend
Thank you! You will enjoy them
Kalin Williams
Cranberry and chocolate is such a great combo! These cookies look incredible
Giangi Townsend
Thank you! Family favorite
Kayla DiMaggio
Yum! These cookies are delicious! I love how the cranberries add a tartness!
Giangi Townsend
it sure does and it balances off against the sweetness of the chocolate.
Meera Girdhar
These Cookies are so tempting . I love oats cookies and these are filled with chocolate and cranberries too yummy combination
Giangi Townsend
One of mine and my family favorite cookies and are made often in our house.
Sue
I love this combo of white and dark chocolate. So excellent with the cranberries – DIVINE cookie!
Giangi Townsend
Thank you Sue, we always enjoy it.
Happy Holidays!
Giangi Townsend
I am so happy you like them, My family favorites.
Mihaela|https://theworldisanoyster.com/
Perfect! I have some cranberries left from my mincemeat, and I was wondering what to do with them. Thanks for an excellent idea!
Giangi Townsend
The pleasure is all mine.
Happy Holidays!
Giangi Townsend
My pleasure, I am sure you will enjoy those cookies.
Emily
These cookies have all of my favs…white chocolate, dark chocolate and dried cranberries!! Delicious!!
Giangi Townsend
Thank you Emily.
Happy Holidays!
Giangi Townsend
Thank you, Emily! A little bit or a lot of chocolate always does the heart good.
Happy Holidays!
Giangi