Dairy-Free Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are chewy crisp cookies with a flavorful spark of dried cranberries. Mix, drop and bake for a delicious treat.
One of the fastest ways I know to get a sweet treat in the house is by making cookies. The variety is endless and the ingredients are probably already in your cupboard.
The ingredients for this cookie recipe probably are anyway. The dough comes together quickly and the outcome of your baking is undeniably good.
Do you have a cookie jar? The one I use is a large square clear glass jar that has a wide mouth and a silver toned screw on lid. Your hand can fit inside and reach all the way inside to the bottom.
When no one is eating them the jar sits out as a design element on one of my counters.
Have you seen any of those old cookie jars from around the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s? They are in all the antique stores and they are also pretty scary.
Porky Pig, beehives, owls and heads of famous movie characters are just a few you could choose from. Isn’t it great how we have moved away from that craze?
I shouldn’t bad mouth those old cookie jars. As they say “Everything comes around again”. It’s usually around every 40-50 years the styles come back. In everything!
Clothes, hair, decor. We are coming up to the 70’s in design time so they must have decided to skip the character cookie jars.
Another cookie that often graces my big clear glass jar is a no-bake one – No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are really worth making too. And the most popular one on my website so far is Apple Pie Cookies.
I hope you LOVE these chocolate cookies! They are:
- Chewy
- Textured
- Rich in flavor
- Crowd-pleasing
- and Easy to Make!
Dairy-Free Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are also a good one because they can be made over the holidays.
Cranberries brighten up so many recipes and their deep burgundy color is so pretty.
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Dairy-Free Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup dairy free butter
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup dairy free milk
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cardamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup dried cranberries
Instructions
- Lightly grease a baking sheet or use a silicone baking mat.
- In a medium bowl and with a hand mixer beat the dairy-free butter and sugars together until light an fluffy.
- Beat in the vanilla and dairy-free milk.
- In a large bowl mix flour, baking soda and spices. Stir.
- Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- By hand, stir in the oats and cranberries.
- Spoon tablespoons of dough onto the baking sheet 2" apart.
- Flatten slightly with the bottom of a flat drinking glass.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 12-15 minutes.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and let set a minute or so and then remove them to a cooling rack.
Nutrition
IF FREEZING:
Package in rigid sided containers as defined in my article How to Prepare Food for the Freezer.
TO PREPARE AFTER FREEZING:
Remove from the freezer and just set out. They defrost in no time.
You know the delicious No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies I mentioned above? Here’s a pic to whet your appetite.
Ginny McMeans says
March 6, 2018 at 7:17 pmNo I haven’t but it wouldn’t work Sara. It needs to whip into a light an d fluffy mixture which wouldn’t work with wet coconut oil.
Sara says
March 6, 2018 at 4:26 pmHave you tried this with coconut oil in place of non- dairy butter?
Ginny McMeans says
December 20, 2017 at 8:59 amAlmond Milk and Coconut milk would be perfect Christine. Just pick the one you like the most.
Christine says
December 20, 2017 at 8:44 amWhat milk alternative works best in sweets ( other than soy)? Definitely going to make these!
Thanks
Anjali @ Vegetarian Gastronomy says
October 23, 2017 at 11:55 amYum these look so moist and soft!! I love oatmeal cookies, and adding cranberries is even better!!
Karen @ Seasonal Cravings says
October 23, 2017 at 11:50 amThis looks like a delicious fall treat and I know my kids would love to see these when they come home from school.
Hannah Hossack-Lodge says
October 23, 2017 at 11:31 amI’ve been on the lookout for a good vegan/dairy free cookie recipe and these look like they might just be it! They look utterly scrumptious!
Hannah Hossack-Lodge says
October 23, 2017 at 11:30 amI’ve been on the lookout for a good dairy free cookie recipe and these look like they might just be it! They look utterly scrumptious!
Dana says
October 23, 2017 at 10:17 amThese sound unreal! I love chewy oatmeal cookies and I *love* putting raisins in them — so incorporating cranberries would be a welcomed addition or sub-in in this house.