Description
You'r favorite cookie with a little holiday twist! Dried cranberries and orange zest turn a normal chocolate chip cookies into something a little more festive.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 sticks butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons orange zest
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup dark chocolate chunks (about 1 4oz bar)
- 1 cup dried cranberries
Instructions
- While your butter is melting/cooling, combine orange zest and granulated sugar and mix with your fingers until completely combined (this just ensures the zest doesn't clump up in the dough). Add brown sugar.
- Pour melted butter over sugars and mix until it rises in volume and becomes lighter in color. Using a stand or hand mixer, this should take about 3-4 minutes on medium-high. Using a whisk, it will take a little longer!
- Add eggs and vanilla, and mix for another minute.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and ground cinnamon. Add to wet ingredients slowly and mix until flour is just combined.
- Fold in chocolate and dried cranberries. Let dough sit for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Using a 1 oz cookie scoop, place cookies about 2 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 9-10 minutes. Let cookies cool on sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.