Cranberry Orange Crumb Cake Cookies

Cranberry Orange Crumb Cake Cookies

When you combine cranberry orange crumb cake with white chocolate chip cookies, you get these delicious, unique cookies that are perfect for the holiday season. They make a festive addition to your holiday cookie platter. I came up with these delightful cookies when I was looking for a way to use up leftover cranberry sauce. If your family is like mine, it’s rare for us to have leftover cranberry sauce because we love it so much. Click here to view my Cranberry Sauce recipe. Don’t worry, you can certainly use store bought whole berry cranberry sauce for this recipe and the cookies will be just as delicious.

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Cranberry Orange Crumb Cake Cookies
Orange scented vanilla cookies with white chocolate chips, topped with cranberry sauce, crumb topping and orange icing
Course Dessert
Servings
cookies
Ingredients
Crumb Topping
Icing
Course Dessert
Servings
cookies
Ingredients
Crumb Topping
Icing
Instructions
Crumb Topping
  1. In a medium-size bowl, whisk together the flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar and salt until well combined. Work the butter into the flour mixture with your fingertips until it looks like wet sand with no large chunks of butter. Press the mixture together to form chunks. Set aside in the refrigerator while you make the cookie dough.
Cookies
  1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF (180ºC). Line 2 large cookies sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a medium-size bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt until well combined.
  3. In a large bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and orange zest, with an electric mixer at medium speed, until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and egg yolk in two separate additions, making sure each one is incorporated before adding the next. Beat in the vanilla extract. On low speed, beat in the flour mixture into the batter, just until combined. Stir in the white chocolate chips.
  4. Form the cookie dough into sixteen 2-tablespoon size balls. Place them about 3 inches apart onto the cookie sheets. Press a 1-inch wide indentation into each cookie using your thumb or a pastry tamper. Fill each indentation with a generous teaspoon of cranberry sauce. Top each one generously with the crumb topping. Gently press the topping into the cookies.
  5. Bake until the topping and the edges start to turn light golden, about 11-13 minutes. (Be careful not to over bake to avoid drying out your cookies.) Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute, then transfer them to a cooling rack.
Icing
  1. In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, salt, lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of orange juice until well combined. Add additional orange juice as needed to achieve your desired consistency. Whisk until smooth. Drizzle the icing over the cooled cookies.

2 thoughts on “Cranberry Orange Crumb Cake Cookies

    • Mari Vasseur says:

      Hi Gigi, it’s odd that you had trouble finding this recipe. From a mobile device, one of the first things you’ll notice on my website at the top of the page is an icon with three lines. This is a standard menu icon which many websites use. If you tap on it, you’ll see a menu which gives you a navigation list. One of those is RECIPE LIST, which is an alphabetical list of all of the recipes on my website. Also this recipe is the very first article on my website landing page. If you read the first two sentences, it says “read more”, which, if you tap on it takes you to the recipe. You can also tap on the title above the photo to take you to the recipe. It’s also the most recent blog post. In addition to that, I have a search tool which can be found on the sidebar if you’re on a computer or at the bottom of the page if you’re on a phone. With the search tool, you can search by name, ingredient or category. Additionally, the full recipe is written in the caption of the Instagram video. I have gone above and beyond to give people access to the recipes I share for free. You may also notice this is an ad-free website, which means you don’t have to be bothered with ads or pop-ups. Thank you for taking time out of your day to share your complaint.

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