Ingredients
- 1/2 cup plus 6 T unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 t vanilla
- 1 orange (for zest and juice)
- 1 3/4 c whole wheat flour
- 1 t baking soda
- 1 t ground cinnamon
- 1/2 t salt
- 3 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 cup dried cranberries*
- 2 cups powdered sugar (for the icing)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Add vanilla and zest from 3/4 of the orange. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Add to butter/sugar/egg mixture, and mix until well combined. Stir in oats and dried cranberries.
Scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet (I like to use silicone baking mats or parchment paper), about 1-2 tablespoons of dough for each cookie. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until golden. Allow cookies to cool on the pan for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
While cookies cool, prepare the icing. Mix together powdered sugar, remaining orange zest, and juice from half the orange until smooth. Drizzle a generous amount of icing over cooled cookies, and allow to set.
*Commercially dried cranberries often have a good amount of added sugar. In this recipe I used home-dried cranberries with minimal sweetener added.
This article was written by Marta Nielsen, blog editor for Live Well Utah, marta.nielsen@usu.edu