White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies

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Jam-packed with salty pistachios, tart dried cranberries and sweet white chocolate, this cookie is the perfect bite.  It also looks beautiful on a cookie tray!

 

I made a cookie similar to these a lot of years ago for a work Christmas party and was told by one co-worker that they were the best cookies he’d ever had.  They are kind of the perfect bite…sweet, tart, salty, rich.  YUM!

They’re certainly perfect for Christmas with the red, green and white, and look pretty on a cookie tray.  I think they’d make a lovely gift, too.

The Cookie Dough

The dough for this cookie is an old standby for me, and one of the easiest and most versatile doughs I’ve made.  It’s a simple sweetened condensed milk cookie recipe that I’ve found I can play with and create fun new varieties. (Like substituting dulce de leche for the sweetened condensed milk, for example…heaven!)

It’s also prime for whatever add-ins you’ve got.  Today that was pistachios (that I lightly toasted and let cool), dried cranberries, and white chocolate.  I was taking the cookies to a Christmas party, and I thought the combination would be perfect!

 

I roughly chopped all the ingredients and added them to the dough.

A little note here ==> My basic recipe for this dough calls for half butter and half coconut oil.  I only had a half cup of coconut oil in the pantry yesterday and so used an extra half cup of butter.  The lesson here is that this recipe is versatile! The original recipe that I found uses all butter, in fact.  It’s all good.

Do you see how jam-packed that dough is with goodness?!  And in case you’re wondering…yes, the dough is amazing to eat raw.

White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies

I like to use a cookie scoop to form the cookies, but feel free to scoop with a spoon, roll in balls, or whatever you’d like.  If you wanted a flatter cookie, you could even press the dough down a bit before baking.

And speaking of personal choice… play with this recipe, friends.  Pecans and dried cherries would be fun. Walnuts and dark chocolate.  Any chopped candy, nuts, or fruit would make delicious additions.

This recipe makes a BIG batch of cookie dough.  You could even divide it and add different add-ins to each half.  The dough freezes beautifully, too.  Perfect to keep on hand for when a fresh-baked cookie need arises.

The cookies are wonderful as is out of the oven, but for the party, I thought it would be pretty to drizzle the top with a little additional melted white chocolate.

I think you’re going to love these cookies.  They almost have a mini-scone vibe. (Which means, of course, that you could eat them for breakfast, right?!)

 

 

White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies

 

 

Here’s the recipe:

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