The BEST oatmeal cookies with coconut & cranberries

Crisp on the outside, chewy on the inside, with the delicious flavour of coconut and cranberries. These oatmeal cookies will soon be a family favourite!

I’m not sure what happened but I massively over-ordered on desiccated coconut this past Pesach. I don’t think I even had anything in mind for it, but I had 3 big bags leftover – oops!

And of course the best before dates are about a month before Pesach next year so I can’t even put them away… Rosh Hashanah has been and gone so there’s nothing else for it – I’d better get baking.

Chametz flavours

I didn’t want to make anything too Pesachy, so I decided to incorporate the coconut into some oatmeal cookies, that are most definitely chametzdig!

I almost made regular raisin and oatmeal cookies but with added coconut. But then I found a tub of dried cranberries and remembered how good coconut and cranberries are together. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Coconut cranberry oatmeal cookies – ingredients

Assuming that you also have a bag of desiccated coconut in your pantry, then you probably have the rest of things you will need to make these tasty cookies. The ingredients are largely pantry staples. To make a batch of cranberry coconut oatmeal cookies, you will need:

• Margarine or butter – depending on whether you want your cookies to be dairy or parve
• Light brown sugar
• Egg
• Plain flour – also called all-purpose flour
• Porridge oats – these are the smaller, ‘quick cook’ oats, rather than chunky ‘rolled’ oats of the sort you’d use in flapjacks
• Bicarbonate of soda
• Desiccated coconut – the whole point of this exercise!!
• Dried cranberries – these are really good with the coconut, but you can use raisins, chopped apricots, chopped dates, or whatever dried fruit you prefer

Oatmeal cookies – Subtle and sweet

I was really pleased with how these coconut cranberry oatmeal cookies came out. The coconut is subtle, but definitely there, and the tangy-sweet cranberry flavour is a perfect compliment. The texture is deliciously chewy and soft inside, with a slightly crisp exterior. Perfect with a cup of tea!

I was also pleased to realise that unlike my muesli cookies or nutella shortbread, these delightful morsels contain no nuts and so will be a lunchbox friendly treat for Kipper to take to school in a few weeks.  Excellent.

Extra productivity

The morning when I made these cookies was doubly productive, because as well as a batch of lovely coconut cranberry oatmeal cookies I also took loads of photos which enabled me to make this video, which will show you just how simple these fabulous cookies are to make.

I should thank my past self for over-buying the coconut really. These oatmeal cookies are fabulous!

Recipe makes about 20 cookies. Yum!

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📖 Recipe

Coconut cranberry oatmeal cookies

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Crispy outside and chewy in the middle, these delicious oatmeal cookies are flavoured with coconut and dried cranberries for extra deliciousness!

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Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American, Vegetarian

Servings 20 cookies

Calories 107 kcal

Ingredients

 

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• 100 g margarine or butter
• 85 g light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 75 g plain flour
• 75 g porridge oats
• ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 50 g desiccated coconut
• 50 g dried cranberries

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 185°C (365°F). Line two baking sheets with greaseproof paper.
• Cream the margarine or butter with the brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg and beat well to combine.
• Add the flour, oats, bicarb and coconut, and mix well to give a soft dough. Stir in the dried cranberries until evenly distributed.
• Place tablespoons of the mixture, spaced well apart, on the prepared baking sheets. You should get around 20 cookies.
• Bake at 185°C (365°F) for around 5-6 minutes, then squash each cookie gently with a fork to encourage it to spread. Return to the oven and bake for another 5-6 minutes until golden brown.
• Remove from the oven, wait a few moments for the cookies to firm up slightly, and then transfer to wire racks to cool.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Coconut cranberry oatmeal cookies

Serving Size

 

1 cookie

Amount per Serving

Calories

107

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

6

g

9

%

Saturated Fat

 

4

g

25

%

Trans Fat

 

1

g

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

1

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

1

g

Cholesterol

 

19

mg

6

%

Sodium

 

69

mg

3

%

Potassium

 

42

mg

1

%

Carbohydrates

 

12

g

4

%

Fiber

 

1

g

4

%

Sugar

 

6

g

7

%

Protein

 

1

g

2

%

Vitamin A

 

137

IU

3

%

Vitamin C

 

1

mg

1

%

Calcium

 

9

mg

1

%

Iron

 

1

mg

6

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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