Cranberry Oat Cookies

I needed something sweet yesterday afternoon so I looked through all the cookie recipes I have and this one stood out because I happen to have dried cranberries.

Ingredients

3/4 cup Lactantia  butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp water
2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup Robin Hood all purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cups Robin Hood or Old Mill oats
1 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cups copped pecans, optional

Preparations

Cream butter, sugars, egg, water and vanilla together on medium speed of electric mixer until light and creamy.

COmbne flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Add to creamed mixture, beating on low speed until blended. Stir in oats, cranberries and nuts.

Drop dough by heaping spoonfuls onto greased baking sheets.

Press flat for crisp cookies; leave mounded for chewy cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes, or until edgeds are golden brown. Don't overbake.

Makes about 4 dozen.


I halved the recipe so mine turned out a little bit wetter than they should have because I didn't halve the egg. And, I must have used a large spoon because I only got about 15 cookies from the dough. I also opted not to use the pecans. We didn't have any.

We all loved them. Little Chubb asked for more cookies even though he told us he only had one more room in his tummy for any food to go into BEFORE he ate his cookie. Big Chubb said it was a keeper! Baby CHubb was sad that she only got to have chocolate chips for her treat instead of a cookie. She had one earlier and I didn't want to go over board on the oatmeal since we had it for breakfast, too.