Dried Berries and White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Red, white, and blue cookies are perfect patriotic cookies for Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Veteran's Day celebrations! The addition of white chocolate chips, dried cranberries and dried blueberries make these festive cookies ready for a party!
Make Red, White, and Blue Cookies with dried berries and white chocolate chips. It's fun to play around with color combinations for holidays and this is no exception. Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day often bring red, white and blue themed parties.
If you like patriotic desserts, you will also enjoy star shaped cookies decked out in red, white and blue royal icing create a cookie flag pattern in this post I shared. Or, Pavlova is a simple white base for a topping of blueberries and strawberries for a holiday dessert.
With the World Cup under way you could also use these patriotic colors to cheer on the USA soccer team. In our house these cookies and their colors serve a dual purpose (luckily!) as my husband and kids are decked out in their England team gear presently cheering on the England side. England's flag is the red and white St. George's Cross while the crest of Three Lions combines red, white and blue.
What ingredients make red, white and blue cookies?
Red: dried berries especially dried cranberries (also called Craisins), dried cherries, freeze dried strawberries
White: White chocolate chips, white candy wafers, dried coconut, or even nuts like almonds or cashews could give you the feeling of a white addition to a cookie.
Blue: dried blueberries or dried cranberries with blueberry flavoring
More red, white and blue cookie recipes
We are all busy baking RED, WHITE, and BLUE cookies this month in anticipation of the 4th of July.
I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed these dried berries and white chocolate chip cookies-- far too many of them I might add. Thank goodness I dropped off a few at a friend's house or I might have to report that I ate the entire batch myself.
Craisins provided the red color and the blue as well. I thought I had purchased dried blueberries but instead bought blueberry flavored craisins. Not quite what I intended but tasty nonetheless. White chips give these chewy cookies that familiar chocolate chip cookie feel and you'll find that these gems disappear quickly.
Dried Berries and White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Jazz up your standard chocolate chip cookie with some red, white and blue!
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- ½ cup dried blueberries (or blueberry flavored craisins)
- ½ cup dried cranberries (or dried cherries, chopped)
Instructions
- In a medium bowl combine the dry ingredients of flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In a stand mixer or with a hand-held electric mixer, cream together the butter with the brown and white sugars. Add the vanilla and the egg.
- Slowly stir in the dry ingredients.
- Fold in the chips and dried berries.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Drop the cookies by the teaspoon-full onto a parchment lined tray. Bake for 11-13 minutes then cool on wire rack.
Notes
This recipe is adapted from the White Chip Island recipe on the back of the Toll House White Morsels package for these Dried Berries and White Chip Cookies.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
48Serving Size:
1 cookieAmount Per Serving: Calories: 89Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 12mgSodium: 74mgCarbohydrates: 12gFiber: 0gSugar: 8gProtein: 1g
This data is provided by Nutritionix and is an estimate only.
Holly Baker started the food blog, A Baker's House, in 2011. She is the writer, recipe creator, and photographer for the site. Holly loves to bake and shares recipes for gluten free food, canning recipes, as well as traditional desserts too. Her recipes and food photography have been highlighted by BuzzFeed, Reader's Digest, and She Knows.
Really festive cookies and I would be tempted to eat the whole batch too.
Thanks, Renee, you made this month come together for the #CreativeCookieExchange, many thanks!
Oh my GOSH, these cookies sound good!
Thanks, Becca, this was a fun month of cookie baking!
I am so making these for my daughter and her workmates. They will love them.
Wish I lived just a bit closer and I'd bake a batch for you! Goodness knows I ate too many of them myself and I'd love to share.
You know that every time I see a cookie on your site I'm wishing I was closer and these are no exception; they are so perfect for the holiday coming up but would be even more perfect in my tummy!
Yes, a bit closer would be nice. Very nice! But I am so happy for you in your new house. I'll be sure to bring goodies to share the next time we get together.
Beautiful cookies, Holly! We are a mixed household too and my British husband (mother Scottish- father English) is very sad over the England loss. These cookies just might make it up to him.
I'll be thinking of you during the England match today. Hope it is a better result than the first game!
These are so pretty!!! I have to take my baked goods to work or I'd certainly eat them all myself as well =)
These look fabulous, Holly! As far as cheering for a team, I guess I'm not really into soccer-but I am into cookies. Definitely, it looks like we are all winners here!
Yes, when it comes to cookies, we are all winners!
I like the look of you cookies and they sound great also.
Great looking cookies, I think I could polish a few of those off. 😉
Thanks! I might make another batch this morning. They were tasty!
I love the idea of using dried berries. Pinned. They sound delicious Holly.
I certainly would have been tempted to eat the whole batch too. I love cranberries and I have never thought of buying the flavored ones but it is a great idea, and one I will be trying soon.
I tasted cookies like these and used my fav chocolate chip recipe but for the dry ingredients except sugar i used a complete blueberry pancakes mix( imitation blueberries ) just followed that recipe added the white chocolate chips instead of regular chocolate and dried cranberries
You forgot the step about folding in the dry ingredients.
Thanks, I'll take a look at that. Have a great day!