Soft and Chewy Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies with a hint of cinnamon. These delicious oatmeal cookies are packed with sweet & salty cranberries and pistachios. Guaranteed to be a holiday hit!
My Favorite Oatmeal Cookie Recipe for the Holidays
Do you have a go to list of cookies that you make for the holidays?
In the cookie realm … I don’t really branch out too much, at least not the way I do when I’m cooking dinners.
Most of my cookie recipes involve chocolate of some sort because well.. Chocolate Chips and I … we are pretty close friends.
Usually my friends and I get together one day in December, each bring 1-2 cookie recipes, bake them all up, and then separate everything out into little goodie bags to give to our neighbors, friends, and family for the holidays.
raw photo of Chewy Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie Dough ready to bake
As I was thinking about the cookies I wanted include in my “goodie box” this year I thought about including an oatmeal cookie of sorts.
Recently I made these delicious Pistachio Cranberry Biscotti, the combination of the salty from the pistachios and the sweet from the dried cranberries seriously went so perfectly together. So I thought why not just make an oatmeal cookie with that combination. After all Oatmeal Raisin is a pretty popular cookie recipe, why not a Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie Recipe. Plus the red and green colors from the Pistachio & Cranberry just makes this recipe perfect for the holidays, so festive!
photo of Chewy Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie with a bite in it
How to Make Oatmeal Cookies Soft?
The key here is to make not over bake them. I usually bake oatmeal cookies at 350 degrees F, for 8-10 minutes. When you take them out of the oven the center will look under cooked, that’s okay. The cookies will still “cook” a little while resting. This will result in a soft chewy oatmeal cookie!
What happens if my oatmeal cookies are too flat?
If your oatmeal cookies come out too flat, one of four things happened.
The butter was NOT soft when you started. (meaning it was melted, don’t put your butter in the microwave)
The batter sat too long before being baked.
Placing the raw dough balls on a hot pan will cause the butter to melt, therefore ending with a flat cookie
Not enough baking soda. Baking soda causes the cookies to spread out and up, resulting in the perfect cookie.
photo of Chewy Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies in a stack
To give you a little perspective on how good these cookies are. Lets start from the beginning.
Mike and I first started dating after he made me his mom’s Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe blindfolded! Yes, you read that right. BLINDFOLDED. I was so impressed that I just had to date him! hehe …. Actually he won me over with his mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Anything that is NOT chocolate chip will not do.
side photo of Chewy Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
But … this Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie recipe totally WOWed my husband. He even told me that he thinks its the best cookie I’ve ever made! What?!?!
So all in all… if you can convert a chocolate chip cookie lover to oatmeal cookies… I’d say its a good recipe.
Wouldn’t you?
Go make them and tell me what you think!