Day After Thanksgiving Cookies

  Desserts

With your leftover cranberry sauce and pumpkin, bake some Thanksgiving cookies. I’ve used jellied and whole-berry cranberry sauce, and both are equally delicious.

Day After Thanksgiving Cookies

Average Rating: 5

TOTAL TIME: Prep: 25 min. + chilling Bake: 15 min./batch + cooling
YIELD: about 6 dozen.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup canned pumpkin pie filling
  • 1/2 cup whole-berry cranberry sauce
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1-1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 cup white baking chips
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  • 1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in pie filling, cranberry sauce, egg and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cloves; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in chips. Refrigerate, covered, until firm, about 2 hours.
  • 2. Preheat oven to 350°. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake until edges are golden brown, 15-18 minutes. Cool on pans 5 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 98 calories, 4g fat (3g saturated fat), 10mg cholesterol, 63mg sodium, 15g carbohydrate (10g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein.

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