Recipe #17: Cranberry Apricot Oatmeal Cookies

Recipe #17: Cranberry Apricot Oatmeal Cookies

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Who knew a cookie with fruit could taste so good? I have to admit I am not typically a fan of fruit in cookies until now. These tasty morsels have cranberries, pecans, and golden raisins mixed in but I think what my taste buds responded to most were the spices - cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. The mix of these spices reminds me of the holidays and instantly gives me the warm and fuzzies.

The cookies were pretty easy to make. The only difficulty I had was scooping the batter onto the parchment paper. It was hard to get the dough to fit just right in the ice cream scoop so some of the cookies were not perfectly round when baked. 

There is also a fine line during the baking process of them being perfectly baked to going just a minute too long and them turning out too browned and crispy so my rule of thumb with cookies is when in doubt pull them out. My oven is always so tricky anyway so I did end up baking these a total of 6 minutes past the recommended max baking time and they turned out perfect. It took me a couple tries to get the time just right.

For full recipe see page 125 in the Dahlia Bakery cookbook