I love baking cookies during the holidays. I make my traditional sugar cookies recipe that I have been making since I was a little girl. We add in the some Ginger Molasses Cookies. Sometimes I like to add in Pretzel M&M Hugs
This year I experimented with some of my favorite ingredients- Almonds, Cranberries, and White Chocolate. It was a win in the kitchen.
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 t vanilla extract (I used Mexican Vanilla)
2-1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 t baking soda
½ t salt
2 cups white chocolate morsels
1 cup sliced almonds
1 1/2 cup dried cranberries
8 oz melting white chocolate (for drizzle)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
Using your mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla.
Then add flour, baking soda and salt. Mix well. Now stir in almonds, 1 1/2 cup of white chocolate morsels, and 1 cup of dried cranberries.
Drop rounded spoonfuls of dough, 1 1/2 inches apart, onto baking sheets. Then take the extra white chocolate morsels and dried cranberries and add a few pieces on top to each cookie. This will make your cookies have a great look of fullness of pieces.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets for 2 minutes and remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Melt the melting while chocolate and drizzle over the cookies.
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