Saturday, May 30, 2009

Orange Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies and Click May

I am not a very big fan of cookies but i do love chocolate in my cookies so chocolate chips are the best ones for me. I like my cookies crispy but untill now i havent found any recipe which gives me those crispy and crunchy cookies, if anyone has such a recipe pls let me know....Ok back to todays recipe..i had lots of dried cranberries in my pantry which i had bought to make some fruit cake which is still on my mind and hopefully i'll make it in coming weeks. I somehow wanted to use these cranberries so while surfing i found these wonderful cookies at Peabody's blog here, I loved the flavors used in this cookie..orange and cranberry really goes well, in the original recipe she has used pistachios which i replaced with chocolcate chunks as i was out of chocolate chips. Freshly baked these cookies filled my kitchen with beautiful aroma of orange and boy i loved it. The below recipe gave me 36 cookies of medium size. I have made few changes to the original recipe, i have cut down butter and sugar both as i am a health freak and even after these changes my cookies came out wonderful. I found orange flavor little less for my taste so next time i will add little more orange peel and may be little orange essence too. This is definately a keeper, if you love tangy taste of cranberry and orange than this is must a try!!!
Also this is the first time I am participating in the Click monthly event by Bee and Jai of Jugalbandi where this month's theme is Click Cookies , though I am totally new to photography and learning to take good pics :)
I am also sending these cookies to Ria who is hosting Lets Celebrate Cakes,Cookies and Cocktails.
Ingredients:
For coating:
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp grated orange peel
For Cookies:
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter softened
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp grated orange peel
1 egg at room temperature
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup roughly chopped chocolate chunks or chocolate chips
Procedure:
  • Preheat the oven at 175 degree C and line the baking tray with parchment paper or butter paper.
  • Sieve flour, baking soda and baking powder together and keep aside for coating.
  • Mix together 1/3 cup sugar and 1tsp orange peel nicely and keep it aside.
  • In a bowl beat together butter, sugar and egg on medium speed until fluffy.
  • Now reduce the speed and in flour, baking soda and baking powder and beat well.
  • Add in finely chopped cranberries , orange peel and chocolate chunks and mix well without beater.
  • Make small 1 inch round balls and roll them in the orange peel sugar coating all the sides.
  • Place these balls on baking tray and flatten them using back of a glass.
  • Bake these for 10 to 12 mins or until the sides have turned light brown.
  • Immediately remove and cool them, store in air tight containers.
  • Enjoy with a glass of milk!!!

58 comments:

  1. Nice click and yummy cookies:)

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  2. Whee! Cookies! They're my top favorite in my mind! Nostalgic me... Marvelous click! These look...slurrrrp!

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  3. Yummy cookies. Looks awesome.Great click.

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  4. Yummy cookies and the photo looks awesome.

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  5. Awesome click, Crunchy and delicious cookies

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  6. delicious cookies. nice click too :)

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  7. Delicious and gorgeous cookies..looks fabulous and awesome clicks Parita!

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  8. I would love to grab one of those cookies..they look so yummy :)

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  9. Beautiful click and yummy cookies :)

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  10. Love the combination you have used. My fave with chocolate is always orange & i love cranberries. Today made some cranberry nut scones.

    nice CLICK.

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  11. They look crunchy n chocolatey! Pretty click!

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  12. thanks for the lovely click.

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  13. wonderful photos and yummy cookies.. thank you :)

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  14. Oh my god! They are mouth watering....yummyyyyyy! :)

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  15. Nice cookies parita....n very ncie click too..
    Missed the event..Even i have something related to cookies,the click is not great enough to share...:(

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  17. Yummy and mouthwatering cookies...

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  18. Yummy and mouthwatering cookies...

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  19. Yummy and mouthwatering cookies...

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  20. mmm.. yummy & verry tempting cookies!

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  21. Nice click dear..looks yummy,i lov to bake cookies,never made with cranberries...

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  22. Oh this has everything I love going into the cookie - delicious.

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  23. Nice click and I also love cranberries so next time I'll use some as well.

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  24. Oooh yum I bet these tasted awesome. And great photography, you made them look really tempting :-)

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  25. Mmmm, such absolutely gorgeous cookies!!

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  26. That's a lovely image for sure. I don't eat cookies very often, but I'd be sure to enjoy these. I really like using dried cranberries in baking.

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  27. Lovely cookies and great shot! Chocolate chip cookies are my favourite too :)

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  28. Amazing cookies..am in love with the pics..:)

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  29. looks delicious...nice click..

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  30. These sound great - the tangy flavor of the orange and cranberry must go really well with the chocolate!

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  31. wow the cookies look yummy yummy paritha.....

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  32. Paritha... cookies are looking very mouthwatering and inviting..

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  33. so beautiful click and crunchy and delicious cookies ummmmmm.

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  34. those r yummy cookies and nice clicks Parita!!!!

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  35. Pari..this snap is fabulous...looks crunchy... :)

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  36. Cookies....yummy ones.Lovely click.Guess you are very creative...lovely pic:)

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  37. Amazing pic!!! the cookie looks very delicious and I love the choice of ingredients too!!!

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  38. I adore the picture with the ribbon it is so pretty and tasty at the same time. Got to love the orange peel yum. :-)

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  39. Delicious cookies :) lovely click too

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  40. Beautiful click and lovely,crunchy cookies:).

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  41. I can eat anything sweet, so I for one am certainly a fan of this. Looks prefectly baked!

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  42. Absolutely love the sound of these cookies. I adore the orange/chocolate combination! They look delicious. Glad you stoped by my blog, led me here, and I am following along:)

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  43. i wanna get married sometime soon, get a proper kitchen and cook and eat..

    watery mouth..

    thanks for paying the visit.. hope i would make each and every visit a memorable smiling one..

    chriz

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  44. Cookies Look's Thin and Perfect! Beautifull entry for CLICK!

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  45. those cookies looks delicious Paritha. Nice clicks

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  46. Chocolate cookies look so inviting. Photo is so professional... perfect for the event too.

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  47. Cookies looks so perfect and nice clicks.

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  48. Wow...mouth watering cookies gal....cool click

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  49. Hi Parita...here for the 1st time...Nice blog n yummy recipes...will come back to see all of them in detail...well presented dishes...

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  50. I really love dried cranberries in cookies and muffins. These look wonderful with the orange flavor.

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  51. I just made one cookie, i have not posted it still, your cookies look soooo good.., want to try some more scared the first time I tried i left it for a long time and it became hard.., give me some suggestions about cooking good cookies please

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  52. A whole lot of flavours going on in this one, very nice!

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  53. Crunchy yummy cookies !!! Good one,Parry ! :-)

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  54. These flavors go beautifully together. I want to make them for my hubby but he does not like chocolate so I am going to divide the batter and make half with and half without and hope for the best. Yum.

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  55. Parita,i have a few experiments with a couple of cookies on my blog and most of them are the crunchy crispy type which i love too!!!!
    U'll find 'em under cookie or cookies

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