White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
(Makes about 5 1/2 dozen cookies)

Ingredients
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2/3 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup shortening

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened (not melted)

1 teaspoon finely shredded orange peel

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 egg or 1/4 cup fat-free cholesterol-free egg product

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup dried cranberries

1 package(6 ounces) white baking bars(white chocolate),
cut into 1/4 to 1/2 inch chunks

White Chocolate Glaze (see below)

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Heat oven to 350º.

Beat sugars, shortening, butter, orange peel, vanilla and egg
in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light
and fluffy, or mix with spoon.

Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt.

Stir in cranberries and white baking bar chunks.
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Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto
ungreased cookie sheet
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Baked 10 to 12 minutes or until light brown.

Cool 1 to 2 minutes: remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

Cool completely about 30 minutes.

Drizzle with White Chocolate Glaze.
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[White Chocolate Glaze]

Ingredients
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1 package (6 ounces) white baking bars (white chocolate), chopped

2 teaspoons shortening
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Place ingredients in 2-cup microwavable measuring cup or deep
microwavable bowl.

Microwave uncovered on High 45 seconds, stir.

If baking bars are not melted, microwave 10 to 20 seconds at a time,
stirring after each time, until melted.
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Nutrition info:

1 cookie: Calories 90, Fat 5g, Sodium 45mg, Protein 1g, Cholesterol 10mg,
Carbohydrate 11g.

Food exchanges: 1 Carbohydrate, 1 Fat
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I use Ocean Spray Craisins - Sweetened Dried Cranberries and
Baker's Premium White Chocolate Baking Bars.

Chop the chocolate in advance to speed up the prep time.

I can vouch for these cookies -- they're darned good!

These cookies are off the chain! I made a batch today and they are so dang good! This is from someone who rarely cooks (unless you count frozen dinners in a microwave!) The fam will be all over these Christas day.

etc., whatever

Russ

These are the cookies with which only gods are blessed.

Yet somehow, Dave snuck in a stole the recipe from the butler's recipe cabinet...

Way to go, Dave!!

~fafs

dave!
dave!

do we deserve this? i can't believe your sharing this~
but then, you wont have to bake so many cookies for the next meeting.

yer smart!

d.

and THANK YOU (that deserves capitals)

I'm beginning to suspect that God Himself handed Dave the recipe for these on two stone tablets. Okay, not really, but they do taste that good.

Thanks everybody... glad you liked them.

The recipe came out of the Betty Crocker's Diabetic Cookbook.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0764567047...j=1#reader-page

If Russ and I can make them .. everybody can.

The cookie gods were with me again.

New merch promotion... buy a cd , get a cookie!!!

oh...you mean Kylie and Bru and i were supposed to share them?

I'm getting the feeling that I'd be an idiot not to try these.

You DID share them... with ME! Darn good, too... mmmmm..... Those cookies are manna.

I finally made these last night, and no...you can't eat just one. wow!

hey just wanted to bump this up! I am so glad! I am making these for a bake sale!

Much Thanks !

Question can I use those nestle white chips?

I'm glad this has been bumped up again. I'm feeling an urge to get in the kitchen. Lord have mercy.....these are so good.

I've had great results with the Baker's white choc bars.

Give the Nestle white chips a test run and see how they come out.
We need a full report!

The chips worked out fine. I prefer the chunks, more flavor explosion!
They were the HIT of the bake sale! Thanks!

i made these again tonight, so i decided to bump this thread. there's a lot of new folks, and if you have never made these, you're only doing you and your taste buds a disservice.

they're like heaven in cookie form.

yummmmm! my mouth is watering just thinking about them.

peace,
zayne

Heck yes they are!

God, I need to make those again soon.

please excuse my ignorance - i have problems following instructions which state remove all packaging put in oven for x minutes at gas y etc

what is shortening - does it have another name
can anyone help me here??

http://www.crisco.com/about/prod_info.asp?...pID=17&catId=63

Crisco, i use the ones that are shaped like a stick of butter(shortening sticks). Easier to use and portion than the bucket.

They now have 0 trans fat Crisco.. gotta try that

Are you callin me "trans fat"? Or Drew?

Drew is more saturated.

You're not "trans fat", just big boned.

He better not be calling you Drew!

*bump for Dave's awesome recipe*

It's been a while since I spotted this in the new posts, and I finally baked them for the first time.


thanks again HometownBoy for the delicious treat!

new bump - I make these cookies every year at Christmas I love them and so does my husband and he rarely eats cookies!

Whoa... these look SO good.

But I suck at cooking.

So I'll just drool all over my keyboard....

Yum!

John, they are so easy, I swear. This is one of the best cookie recipes I have ever made, and everyone who eats the cookies thinks they're so fancy!

Becky, I don't think you understand...... I don't know how to turn on our oven...... (in my defense, it is a NEW oven with digital controls)

Maybe I'll hit up one of the girls..... the 11 year old has been starting to "cook"