Pistachio Cranberry Orange Cookies

Welcome to 12 days of Christmas Cookies, my way of celebrating the holidays by sharing with you all 12 unique yet nostalgic cookie recipes to bake over the holidays. For day 2, I am sharing these pistachio cranberry orange cookies with white chocolate and oatmeal. Pistachio, cranberry and orange are all flavours of the holidays in my opinion, and combining them together in a festive cookie, with melted white chocolate, is a match made in heaven! These cookies are easy to make, combine a few staple, pantry ingredients, and freeze perfectly if you want to make them in advance of the holiday season.

12 Days of Christmas Cookies is inspired by nostalgic, holiday flavours but combined in a way that you hopefully haven’t seen before. Cookies are kind of my thing…. the limits of creativity feel endless when it comes to cookies and I am always so giddy about coming up with a new flavour combination, and so combing my favourite dessert with my favourite holiday just felt fitting! Between December 1st to the 12th you will see 12 completely different cookie recipes, ranging from easy, throw together recipes to recipes with a little more TLC, but something for bakers of every level. A lot of these cookies compliment each other if you want to throw them together in a cookie box to bring in to the office or gift to someone you love. They also all freeze really well if you are like me and would like to get a head start on your Christmas baking early in the month so that you have goodies to pull out on December 21st when you want something sweet but are overwhelmed with beautiful chaos!

All of the cookie recipes you see over the next 12 days are unique recipes that I have created, tested and retested for you to enjoy in your own kitchens. If you do decide to make any of these recipes, please do tag me on socials because I love to see what you come up with!

The Ingredients

You’ll see below that these cookies come together with your basic cookie staples and are dressed up with the goodies we add in! Chopped pistachios and cranberries, orange extract and white chocolate do the job to take these oatmeal cookies to another, festive level!

• 1 cup butter, unsalted, room temperature
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 tsp orange extract
• 1 + 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 3/4 cups chopped pistachios
• 1 cup unsweetened, dried cranberries
• 4 ounces white chocolate

The Instructions

1. Start by grabbing all of your ingredients and preheating your oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large electric mixer (or a large glass bowl with a hand mixer), combine the butter, sugars and eggs and mix until smooth. Add the vanilla and orange extract.
3. In a small, separate bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Give this a quick whisk with a fork and then gradually add to the wet mixture while mixing on medium speed until evenly distributed and combined.
4. Now time to add the fun parts! Start by adding your rolled oats and pistachios and give this a quick mix with the electric attachment. I reccomended folding in the cranberries, which means doing it gently by hand with a spatula.
5. You can add the white chocolate in to the cookie dough or you can place a couple chunks on top of each ball of cookie dough before baking, it’s up to you!
6. Scoop out 2 tbsp sized balls of cookie dough and transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes, or until set in the middle and crispy on the edges. Remove from the oven and let these cool completely before storing in an airtight container or a freezer bag.

Pistachio Cranberry Orange Cookies

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Servings: 20 cookies

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup butter unsalted, room temperature
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 tsp orange extract
• 1 + 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 3/4 cups chopped pistachios
• 1 cup unsweetened dried cranberries
• 4 ounces white chocolate

Method

 

1. Start by grabbing all of your ingredients and preheating your oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large electric mixer (or a large glass bowl with a hand mixer), combine the butter, sugars and eggs and mix until smooth. Add the vanilla and orange extract.
3. In a small, separate bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Give this a quick whisk with a fork and then gradually add to the wet mixture while mixing on medium speed until evenly distributed and combined.
4. Now time to add the fun parts! Start by adding your rolled oats and pistachios and give this a quick mix with the electric attachment. I recommend folding in the cranberries, which means doing it gently by hand with a spatula.
5. You can add the white chocolate in to the cookie dough or you can place a couple chunks on top of each ball of cookie dough before baking, it’s up to you!
6. Scoop out 2 tbsp sized balls of cookie dough and transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes, or until set in the middle and crispy on the edges. Remove from the oven and let these cool completely before storing in an airtight container or a freezer bag.