Dark & White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies

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To instruct amongst the rich butter base of operations of my cookies, I wanted to pick out other corking ingredients to practise a actually great, tasty cookie.

I decided to instruct amongst the ever-popular combination of cranberry in addition to pistachio. Now, typically amongst cranberry pistachio cookies, they're white chocolate cranberry pistachio cookies.

But I love, love, dear the combination of dark chocolate, cranberries, in addition to pistachios. A piffling seize amongst teeth of nighttime chocolate amongst a few dried cranberries in addition to salted pistachios? Absolutely delicious piffling sweet-and-salty snack.

So I decided to practise a cranberry pistachio cookie amongst both white in addition to nighttime chocolate.

White chocolate cranberry pistachio cookies great.

Dark chocolate cranberry pistachio cookies great.

Dark and White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies even better!

I loaded these cookies upward amongst lots in addition to lots of the scrumptious mix-ins. We're talking a actually high great-stuff-to-cookie-dough ratio. Oh, they're thus expert that way.

And in addition to thus I made them fifty-fifty ameliorate ... amongst chocolate drizzle.

Dark chocolate drizzle. And white chocolate drizzle. That's a delicious double drizzle! ... totally worthy of beingness served upward inwards a featured location on your vacation cookie tray.

Alongside a large drinking glass of REAL® Seal milk, of course.

Dark & White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies

Source: A Tracey creation
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

1/2 c. butter, softened
1/4 c. granulated sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 c. dark chocolate morsels, coarsely chopped
1/4 c. white chocolate morsels
3/4 c. dried cranberries, chopped
3/4 c. pistachios, chopped
about 2 T. additional nighttime & white chocolate morsels for drizzling {optional}

Directions

In a large bowl combine, butter, granulated sugar, in addition to chocolate-brown sugar; crunch until creamy, virtually 2 to three minutes. Beat inwards egg in addition to vanilla extract.
Combine flour in addition to baking soda. Gradually add together flour mixture to butter mixture; mix until simply combined. Stir inwards nighttime chocolate morsels, white chocolate morsels, chopped cranberries, in addition to chopped pistachios. Chill dough inwards the fridge for thirty minutes.
Drop dough past times rounded tablespoonful onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes until simply turning golden around the edges. Let cookies stand upward on the pan for virtually a infinitesimal earlier removing to a cooling rack.
FOR CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE {optional}: Place virtually 2 tablespoons nighttime chocolate chips inwards a pocket-size zip-top plastic bag. Set handbag inwards a bowl of hot tap H2O to soften. Gently knead the chocolate amongst your fingers until melted in addition to smooth, placing dorsum inwards the hot H2O for a infinitesimal or 2 every bit needed. Snip a real pocket-size hole inwards the corner of the plastic bag. Drizzle chocolate over the cookies. Repeat amongst virtually 2 tablespoons of white chocolate chips. Let stand upward until chocolate drizzle is set.

Enjoy!

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