Dark & White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies
Thank you to REAL® Seal for sponsoring creation of these cookies and this post. What fun to rise to the latest REAL® Seal Dairy Diva challenge to create and share a Christmas cookie using Real Seal® dairy products. Made with real butter and loaded with scrumptious mix-ins, these Dark & White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies are certainly worthy of a featured spot on your Christmas cookie tray.
The foundation of great baking is great ingredients. And when it comes to dairy products, REAL® Seal helps ensure our baking gets the great ingredients it deserves. How, you ask?
Like on the sweet cream butter that forms the deliciously rich base of these Dark & White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies. When choosing your butter ... or any dairy product ... at the store, look for the REAL® Seal to be sure you're getting the best!
I decided to go with the ever-popular combination of cranberry and pistachio. Now, typically with cranberry pistachio cookies, they're white chocolate cranberry pistachio cookies.
But I love, love, love the combination of dark chocolate, cranberries, and pistachios. A little bite of dark chocolate with a few dried cranberries and salted pistachios? Absolutely delicious little sweet-and-salty snack.
So I decided to create a cranberry pistachio cookie with both white and dark 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 up with lots and lots of the scrumptious mix-ins. We're talking a really high great-stuff-to-cookie-dough ratio. Oh, they're so good that way.
And then I made them even better ... with chocolate drizzle.
Dark chocolate drizzle. And white chocolate drizzle. That's a delicious double drizzle! ... totally worthy of being served up in a featured spot on your holiday cookie tray.
Alongside a big glass of REAL® Seal milk, of course.
Alongside a big glass of REAL® Seal milk, of course.
Dark & White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies
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 dark & white chocolate morsels for drizzling {optional}
- In a large bowl combine, butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar; beat until creamy, about 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla extract.
- Combine flour and baking soda. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture; mix until just combined. Stir in dark chocolate morsels, white chocolate morsels, chopped cranberries, and chopped pistachios. Chill dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Drop dough by rounded tablespoonful onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes until just turning golden around the edges. Let cookies stand on the pan for about a minute before removing to a cooling rack.
- FOR CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE {optional}: Place about 2 tablespoons dark chocolate chips in a small zip-top plastic bag. Set bag in a bowl of hot tap water to soften. Gently knead the chocolate with your fingers until melted and smooth, placing back in the hot water for a minute or two as needed. Snip a very small hole in the corner of the plastic bag. Drizzle chocolate over the cookies. Repeat with about 2 tablespoons of white chocolate chips. Let stand until chocolate drizzle is set.
Enjoy!
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