EASY Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
This Oatmeal Craisin cookie recipe is the ultimate soft and chewy cookie treat to make over the holidays and beyond! Making these healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies is super easy, yet provides a luxurious cookie experience loaded with craisin, cinnamon, and brown sugar!

- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 13 min
- Yield
- 9 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 130 g Unsalted butter (soft, room temperature)
- 70 Brown sugar (light brown sugar or dark brown sugar)
- 40 g Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg (room temperature)
- 120 g All purpose flour
- 120 g Oatmeal (Old Fashioned Rolled Oats)
- ½ Teaspoon Salt
- ½ Teaspoon Baking soda
- ½ Teaspoon Cinnamon (ground cinnamon)
- 150 g Craisin (dried cranberry)
Instructions
- 1
With an electric hand mixer whip room temperature soft butter with the 2 different kinds of sugar for a few minutes
- 2
Mix in room temperature egg, just until combined
- 3
Mix oatmeal, flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon together then add this flour mixture into the cookie dough and fold with the help of a Rubber spatula just until combined. Do not overmix
- 4
Fold in dried cranberries. Leave some cranberries to press onto the cookies at later stage
- 5
Prepare baking pan with baking sheet
- 6
Divide the dough into 9 equal balls (using a Digital scale is handy) and place them onto the parchment paper leaving enough space between them to spread
- 7
Press some more craisins on the surface of the cookies
- 8
Let cookie dough rest in the fridge for an hour
- 9
Pre-heat oven to 175 C / 347°F
- 10
After 1h chilling time, bake the cookies for 10 minutes in the following way: Bake for 10 minutes then place more craisins on top, then bake them for further 3 minutes.
- 11
For the perfect round cookie, apply circular movement around the freshly baked cookies with the help of a cookie cutter
- 12
Let the cookies rest for a few minutes, then carefully remove from the parchment paper and let them cool on a Cooling rack
- 13
Serve them while they are warm but not hot
- 14
The Cookies will further set as they cool. Keep them on room temp for a few days in air tight jar