Twin Cities Live’s 16^th Annual 12 Days of Cookies series continues with Alice Seuffert who has provided recipes every single year! She shares her recipe for Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies.

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Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
Alice Seuffert, Dining with Alice
Makes 36 Cookies

Ingredients

2 ½ Cups Flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
1 Cup (16 TB) Butter (Salted)
½ Cup Granulated Sugar, plus ¼ cup sugar for rolling
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Zest from 2 Oranges
2 tsp Orange Juice
1 Egg
3/4 Dried Cranberries (chopped)
Garnish (if desired): 5 ounces melted white chocolate and dried orange pieces

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix flour and baking powder together and set aside.

Cream butter, ½ cup of sugar, vanilla, zest from oranges, and 2 tsp orange juice.

Add egg and mix. Gradually add in flour mixture and mix until combined. Add in dried cranberries and mix.

Form dough into two long rolls and slice into 36 total pieces. Roll each piece into a ball and roll in sugar.

Arrange a dozen cookie balls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Press down each cookie ball.

Bake for 15 minutes or until edges of cookies start to brown.

Once cooled, dip half of cookie in melted white chocolate. Garnish with piece of dried orange.