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These cranberry white chocolate shortbread cookies are so easy and always a hit! You’ll love these slice and bake white chocolate cranberry cookies for your next cookie swap! Try this cranberry shortbread cookies recipe for your holiday celebration!
Servings: 32 cookies
Calories: 183kcal
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Ingredients
- 1½ cup (341 g) salted butter - room temperature (3 sticks)
- 1 ½ cup (180 g) powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) orange extract - (or vanilla, or almond extract)
- 1 cup (121 g) sweetened dried cranberries - chopped
- 3 cups (384 g) all-purpose flour - plus more for rolling
- 8 oz (227 g) white chocolate - chopped (about 1½ cup)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and powdered sugar until smooth.1½ cup salted butter, 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
- Stir in orange extract until well combined.1 teaspoon orange extract
- In a separate bowl, combine flour and dried cranberries and mix well.1 cup sweetened dried cranberries, 3 cups all-purpose flour
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix with a hand mixer or paddle attachment of a stand mixer until dough begins to come together.
- Divide dough in half. Dust surface with flour and, with floured hands, roll dough into two cylinders, about 1 ½ -2 inch in diameter.
- Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours or overnight. Dough can be made and chilled up to 3 days in advance.
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking liner.
- Unwrap chilled dough logs. Using a serrated knife, cut log into ½-inch slices.
- Place cookie slices on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 12-13 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to lightly brown around the edges.
- Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- Melt chopped white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave in 15 second increments.8 oz white chocolate
- Dip half of each cookie into melted white chocolate and place on parchment paper to set.
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Notes
Storage: Cookies can be frozen very well for up to 3 months in an airtight container.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 cookie | Calories: 183 kcal | Carbohydrates: 20 g | Protein: 2 g | Fat: 11 g | Saturated Fat: 7 g | Cholesterol: 24 mg | Sodium: 68 mg | Potassium: 37 mg | Fiber: 0.4 g | Sugar: 10 g | Calcium: 19 mg | Iron: 1 mg
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