Cranberry Cookies

[MarkV]

Dear friends:

A friend of mine wants me to make her cranberry cookies. First, pastry is not my specialty and two, while I've made a few different kinds of cookies, I've never made "cranberry" cookies.

Just taking an educated guess here. My plan was to follow a standard sugar cookie recipe and just add in chopped fresh cranberries to the batter much like you would chocolate chips.

Is this OK?

Thanks,

Mark

[panini]

Mark,
I have not done that but I'm thinking that there may not be enough sweet offset for sour cranberries.
If I had to formulate something I think I would go along the lines of a russian rock. Something with brown sugar, other fruits like raisins, maybe nuts. Cranberries go very well with orange.
I would even pair it up with something like dates or dried apricots.
Just my thoughts.
pan

[momoreg]

Also, fresh cran is going to give off a lot of moisture when it bakes. Definitely opt for dried, sweetened cranberries.

[henry]

I made cranberry scones using fresh cranberries and they were very good. I cut the cranberries in half, tossed them in sugar, then let them rest on paper towels for awhile to capture any moisture that exuded, which wasn't much.
The fresh cranberries did well in the scones and I squiggled some powder sugar glaze on the tops.

I think you should try it and let us know how they turned out.

[KyleW]

I'm with momoreg. I'd go with dried, sweetened. Find any recipe that uses raisins and just swap in the dried cranberries.

[MarkV]

Thanks guys. I'll try the dried, sweetened cranberries.

Mark