cranberry and white chocolate oaty biscuits. These lil oaty biscuits from Ottolenghi & Helen Goh's new baking book, Sweet*, are akin to shortbread in their high butter content and short texture. They're perfect for this time of year, being flavoured with orange zest, toasted almonds, dried cranberries and some white chocolate. Cranberry and white chocolate oaty biscuits in a jar. I made a lot of my Christmas gifts last year but I couldn't post about them until after Christmas so this is the first post in my series of Christmas gifts. I love gifts in a jar; they are fun to make, give and receive.

The creamy white chocolate and sweet cranberries are fantastic together. Warning these cookies won't last long! When they are cool enough to handle, chop them into pieces, preferably by hand as a processor can be hard to control. You can cook cranberry and white chocolate oaty biscuits using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of cranberry and white chocolate oaty biscuits

It's of biscuit.
Prepare 125 grams of self-raising flour.
You need 125 grams of light muscovado sugar.
Prepare 125 grams of porridge oats.
It's 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
Prepare 125 grams of butter/margarine.
It's 1 tbsp of golden syrup.
It's 50 grams of dried cranberries.
You need of topping.
It's 125 grams of white chocolate.

Combine oats, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate mixing bowl. Add to butter mixture in several additions, mixing well after each addition. Stir in dried cranberries and chocolate chunks. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking tray.

cranberry and white chocolate oaty biscuits instructions

Preheat oven to 180°F centigrade (160 fan oven) or gas mark 4.
In a bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, oats, baking soda and cranberries. Set aside..
Melt butter and golden syrup in a pan, add to dry mixture and mix..
Divide mixture into sixteen and roll into balls. arrange on a baking tray with plenty of space between each ball. press on each ball lightly to squash the mixture down..
Bake for 16-18 munutes until golden. Once removed from oven, leave to cool on a wire rack..
Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water (or in the microwave on full power in a glass bowl for 20 second bursts).
Dip one half of each biscuit in the melted chocolate and leave to set on wire rack..

These cranberry and white chocolate biscuits will do just that! Crunchy, chewy, fruity they are all that and more. Anyways, down to business, you will be needing the following ingredients. For all you Utrecht locals, I will keep repeating this, you can get everything here! Homemade biscuits are a delight and these white chocolate and cranberry biscuits are to die for!