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White chocolate, cranberry and pecan nut cookies

White chocolate, cranberry and nut cookies
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White chocolate and cranberry cookies
Prep Time:10 minutes
Cook Time:12 minutes

Ingredients

  • 300 gm white chocolate cut up into chunks - big and small
  • 100 gm butter
  • 1 egg
  • 50 gm muscovado / brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 180 gm or 1 1/4 cup flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 85 gm caster sugar
  • 50 gm dried cranberries
  • 50 gm pecan nuts chopped or macadamia nuts or others could work

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C/350F
  • melt 85gms of the choc in a double boiler, then cool a little
  • beat butter, egg, sugars and vanilla with an electric beater until creamy
  • beat in the melted choc
  • stir in the flour, baking powder, cranberries, nuts and remaining chocolate to make a stiff dough
  • using a tablespoon measure, drop small mounds well spaced on a lined baking sheet (silicone baking sheets work really well)
  • you could also reserve some of the nuts, berries and chocolate pieces and place these into the cookies after they are on the tray so they poke out (extra pretty)
  • bake for 12 minutes
  • allow to cool for 1 -2 minutes then put on a cooling rack (this is quite important as they carry over cooking quite a bit after baking and can go a bit too brown if left on the baking pan)
  • You could double up and freeze the already formed cookie discs for later use.

Notes

These cookies keep for a few days in a sealed container.
Author: Sam Linsell