Dark Chocolate Cranberry Walnut Cookies combine a crispy outside with a soft and fudgy inside that's filled with semi-sweet chocolate chips, dried cranberries, and toasted chopped walnuts. They're a rich and chocolatey cookie recipe that requires no dough chilling before baking and a great addition to any holiday cookie box!
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Why You'll Love this Dark Chocolate Cranberry Walnut Cookies Recipe
The taste. These cookies give you a little sweet, a little tart, and touch of nutty flavor. It's the trifecta of flavor combos in cookie form!
The consistency. They have a crispy edge with a soft and fudgy inside. And each bite gives you a combo of semi-sweet chocolate chips, dried cranberries, and toasted Diamond of California chopped walnuts.
Perfect for any holiday cookie box! This recipe makes 36 cookies making them a perfect addition to your holiday cookie boxes. Or you can simply make them to share with your family right at home!
No cookie dough chilling! There is zero chilling required of this dark chocolate cranberry walnut cookie dough, so you can make them, bake, then enjoy!
List of Ingredients
- All-Purpose Flour. Use your favorite brand of flour. I didn't test this with any other kind.
- Unsweetened Dark Cocoa Powder. Regular unsweetened works just as well too.
- Baking Soda & Salt. Typical leavening agent you find in cookie recipes. The salt helps to round out the flavors and counteracts the bitterness with the unsweetened dark cocoa.
- Unsalted Butter. Should be softened and at room temperature
- Sugars. You'll need granulated sugar or organic pure cane sugar, and light brown sugar. The brown sugar, if using measuring cups, should be lightly packed.
- Eggs. You'll need 2 large and they should be at room temperature.
- Vanilla Extract. Pure vanilla is best!
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips. You can also use milk chocolate in place of semi-sweet!
- Dried Cranberries. You can find these in your dried fruits section of your grocery store.
- Diamond of California Chopped Walnuts. Part of the Baker's Box from Diamond of California, which you can find at your nearest Costco! You get 3, 22 ounce bags—chopped walnuts, chopped pecans, and slivered almonds! Or you can get Costco's online exclusive Baker's Box which features macadamia nuts in place of the slivered almonds. Definitely toast the walnuts before folding them into the cookie dough to bring out that beautiful fragrant flavor!
Let's Make Dark Chocolate Cranberry Walnut Cookies
Toast the chopped walnuts. This works best over medium heat in a small skillet. No oil is needed whatsoever! You want to toast them for about 5 minutes, continually stirring until they're fragrant and slightly darker from how they originally started. Don't leave them unattended because they will darken quickly.
Toasting the chopped walnuts is optional, but does help to amplify the flavor of them when paired with the other ingredients.
Make the cookie dough. Whisk the dry ingredients together, then mix the wet ingredients. Add in the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until just combined. You can use either a hand mixer or stand mixer for this part.
Fold in the rest. Use a spatula or spoon and stir in the semi-sweet chocolate chips, dried cranberries, and toasted Diamond of California chopped walnuts.
Scoop out the cookies and bake. Bake for 8-10 minutes at 375ºF. I got 12 cookies to a baking sheet using my 1 ½ tablespoon size cookie scoop.
Let the cookies cool. Let them cool for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring them to a wire cooling rack. They will be very soft, so use a spatula! For just baked perfectly round cookies, see my tips below!
Tips for Getting Perfectly Round Cookies
Use a cookie scoop. I used a 1 ½ tablespoon-size cookie scoop.
Use a circle cookie cutter. Immediately after the cookies have baked, take a circle cookie cutter—or any circle object slightly larger than the diameter of the cookie—and in a circular motion, move the cookie cutter around the cookie until it forms a perfect circle.
For a more detailed step-by-step, you can check out my Salted Brownie Crinkle Cookies recipe!
More Cookies to Enjoy!
- Salted Brownie Crinkle Cookies
- Classic Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Hot Chocolate Mini Marshmallow Cookies
- Homemade Butter Cookies
Dark Chocolate Cranberry Walnut Cookies
Author:Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups All-Purpose Flour
- ½ cup Unsweetened Dark Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 cup Light Brown Sugar, firmly packed
- 2 Large Eggs, room temperature
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 ½ cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- ½ cup Diamond of California Chopped Walnuts, lightly toasted
- ½ cup Dried Cranberries
Instructions
- In a small skillet, toast the chopped walnuts over medium heat for about 5 minutes, stirring continuously until they are fragrant and slightly darker in appearance. You do not need to add any oil to the skillet.
- Adjust the oven rack to the 2nd level position (just above center), preheat the oven to 375ºF, and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or you can use silicone baking mats.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, unsweetened dark cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Using your hand mixer or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat the unsalted butter, granulated sugar, and light brown sugar together on medium-high speed until light in color and fluffy in texture.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla extract and continue to mix together until well blended. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Switching the mixer speed to low, gradually add in your whisked dry ingredients until just combined. Then fold in the semi-sweet chocolate chips, toasted chopped walnuts, and dried cranberries.
- Using a spoon or cookie scoop (I used the 1 ½ tablespoon size), drop the cookie dough onto the lined baking sheets leaving 2 inches apart between each cookie.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes at 375ºF.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Keep the cookies stored in an airtight container for up to a week with a slice of bread.
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