Cranberry Orange Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 3/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 1 cup salted butter

  softened (2 sticks)
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar

  packed
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. orange extract
• 1 cup fresh cranberries

  washed (smaller cranberries preferred)
• 2 tbsp. orange zest
• 2 cups vanilla chips

  or premiere white baking chips

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 Wash cranberries in colander.
• 3 Pat dry with paper towels and transfer to a small mixing bowl.
• 4 Add ¼ cup granulated sugar and stir to combine; set aside.
• 5 In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, remaining ½ cup granulated sugar, brown
  sugar, egg, vanilla and orange extracts, baking soda, salt, and orange zest
  until smooth and creamy.
• 6 Add flour, cranberry mixture and white chocolate chips and stir into batter with
  a wooden spoon.
• 7 Stir batter throughly, but it will still be very dry.
• 8 Scrunch and squeeze dough with hands until crumbs start adhering.
• 9 Form dough into a ball while squeezing dough; this will take 15-20 seconds for
  each ball of dough.
• 10 Place balls on cookie sheets that have been sprayed with cooking spray.
• 11 Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden brown around edges.
• 12 Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks after ten minutes of baking time.
• 13 Cool for several minutes on cookie sheets before transferring to rack to cool
  completely.
• 14 Store in airtight container.

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