I can’t remember how I first connected with Xiao on Twitter, but she’s one of the people I’ve actually met in real life (mmm….ramen) and I hope lunch becomes a regular thing for us.
Although her blog focuses a lot more on restaurant reviews, she does manage to sneak in a recipe here and there, and when she does – it’s pretty awesome.
She told me that she rarely bakes, but as her guest post clearly shows – she really should be baking more often! You can check out this cookie recipe posted on her blog as well.
guest post by Xiao from Xiao Eats
I am not a baker. I have no patience for measuring and I have a tendency for estimating. Despite that, there’s something about the holidays that make me reach for my mixing bowls (buried under many other kitchen gadgets). One thing I love about cookie recipes is that they’re usually a single step. Cream, stir, bake and eat.
This dried cranberry and white chocolate chip cookie recipe was easy to whip up, even for me and the results were delicious, soft and chunky. The dried cranberries are perfect for holidays and balance with the sweet white chocolate chips, a perfect cookie to sip with tea by the fire.
- 1/2 cup of butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup of white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- 3/4 cup of white chocolate chips
- 1 cup roughly chopped dried cranberries
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Grease cookie sheets (I like to save butter wrappers to do this)
- In a large bowl, cream together the brown sugar, white sugar and butter until smooth
- Beat in the egg and vanilla extract
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking powder
- Add dry ingredients to the creamed butter and stir together
- Add in white chocolate chips and chopped dried cranberries, stir together
- Drop balls of dough onto the baking sheet, making two dozen
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, remove from the oven, let sit for 1 minute and transfer to wire racks to cool
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