Eggnog White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
The perfect Christmas cookies, this recipe for Eggnog White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies is loaded with delicious Holiday spice flavor!
Eggnog White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies recipe is one of my Christmas cookie favorites! The eggnog flavor really comes through in these soft, cake-like cookies. The addition of white chocolate chips and cranberries make these exceptionally tasty! Eggnog adds such festive flavor to Holiday baking and special desserts such as Eggnog Cheesecake squares and Eggnog Fudge!
Helpful tips for making these flavorful cookies.
- Gourmet or full fat creamy eggnog works best in this recipe. I found light eggnog was thinner and the cookies spread out and did not get the nice cake-like texture to them.
- Preheat the oven to 300ºF and line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Parchment paper is great for baking cookies. It makes for easy cleanup and prevents cookies from sticking to baking sheet.
- Make sure your butter is at room temperature, when gently pressed with your finger it makes an imprint. In addition, have eggs and eggnog at room temperature. This makes dough that keeps the cookies high and fluffy.
- Using the paddle attachment on your blender cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Measure flour by scooping it from the bag with a measuring cup, then level it even with a knife. In most recipes flour is never sifted before measuring unless the recipe specifically calls for it.
- I use a whisk to mix all the dry ingredients to ensure they are well combined.
- When mixing in the dry ingredients blend just until combined. Don’t overmix.
- For nice, even sized cookies I find a small cookie scoop works best.
- These Eggnog Cookies freeze well, great for making ahead of time. Freeze in layers separated by wax paper in well-sealed container.
The dough for these cookies is light and sticky, which gives the cookies a great cake-like texture.
A small sized cookie scoop makes it easy to place dough onto baking sheets and also helps to make perfectly sized cookies.
Same sized cookies spaced 1-2 inches apart.
Bake 300ºF for 16-18 minutes. I always bake using convection mode, so baking time may be a few minutes more in regular oven.
more tasty eggnog recipes to try
In addition to making a delicious Eggnog and Rum cocktail, eggnog is a great addition to many festive treats!
This post was originally published December 11, 2019. Occasionally I update with fresh tips, content and photos. Current update December 9th, 2023.
Eggnog White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 1/4 cups white sugar
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup eggnog full fat
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300º F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In small bowl combine together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. I like to use a whisk to ensure ingredients are well combined.
- In mixing bowl with paddle attachment, beat together sugar and butter until fluffy.
- Add eggs and mix until combined.
- Add vanilla and eggnog, mix until well combined.
- Turn mixer to low speed and gradually add in dry ingredients. Mix only until combined.
- Add white chocolate chips and cranberries, blend just until combined. Don't overmix!
- Using small cookie scoop, drop cookies onto parchment line baking sheet 1 inch apart.
- Bake 300ºF for 16-18 minutes until edges are golden brown.
Notes
Nutrition
Can you use fresh Cranberries?
Linda, fresh cranberries would not work in this recipe.
These are wonderful. I baked them at 305F* for 30 minutes a batch (not convection). I used two racks in the bottom third of the oven and switched the pans rack to rack and back to front at 15 minutes. I got 39 cookies.
I used salted butter.
*My oven gets a little weird and drops temperature so I usually go just a little higher than called for. It seems to help.
Thanks for the feedback Pat and taking the time to rate my recipe. Wishing you the best this Christmas season.
Cookies came out delicious. I only have handheld mixer but worked fine. I’ve never seen a cookie recipe with oven setting at 300f. Even my convection oven needed about 25 min! I’m going 325f next time. Thank you