16 Nov Dried Cranberry and White Chocolate Chunk Buckwheat Cookies
I’ve never made a really good chocolate chip cookie using wheat flour. It’s not because of the wheat flour. It’s because of me. (sounds like a bad movie line) I used to be so impatient in the kitchen so if a cookie recipe required freezing the dough I’d be like “Nah, maybe I’m some kind of cookie godess who can skip the boring steps of cookie baking. What happened was that the cookies spread out on the entire baking tray and became one big squared cookie.
I would like to say that my recipe for “Dried Cranberry and White Chocolate Chunk Buckwheat Cookies” doesn’t require any freezing or chilling, but it does. Though only 30 minutes in the fridge and you don’t need to roll the cookie dough into a log. You just pop the bowl with the cookie dough into the fridge and that’s it. If I had the patience to wait 30 minutes for the cookies to chill I think you’ll have too.
What’s great about these cookies is that you only need buckwheat flour to make them even though they’re gluten free. I’m so used to using at least 3 different flours for gluten free baking that this seems a little bit like skipping the freezing/chilling step because of laziness. Anyway, these cookies have crisp edges and a chewy middle and they’re spiced with ground ginger, cardamom and cinnamon. And then of course there’s dried cranberries and white chocolate chunks in these cookies. (Clue is in the title.)
There’s been christmas commercials on the TV for several weeks now and every time I see one I get a little bit frustrated. I love christmas but it’s just too early to try to sell christmas lightning before october has come to an end! I’ve had no longing for christmas at all until I made these cookies. When I took my first bite into one of the cookies I started longing for Christmas. I think it’s the spices that remind a little about gingerbread cookies and who doesn’t love gingerbread cookies?
P.s. Sorry for the grainy pictures but it’s getting darker and darker in Stockholm and I’m already shooting with a really long shutter speed. Thank god for tripods!
The perfect gluten free cookie for autumn and christmas. Eat it with a cup of tea while watching your favorite rom-com.
Ingredients
- 110g soft butter
- 150g raw cane sugar
- 1 egg
- 150g buckwheat flour
- ½ tsp. bicarbonate of soda (this should be naturally GF, but do check the packet)
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- 50 g white chocolate, roughly chopped
- 50 g dried cranberries
Instructions
- Cream together the butter and sugar with a hand held electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 5 min. Add the egg while mixing before adding the buckwheat flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and ground spices. Mix thoroughly until the mixture comes together into a dough. Fold in the dried cranberries and white chocolate chunks with a rubber spatula. Cover the bowl with cling film and transfer to the fridge to chill for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F and line 2 baking trays with baking parchment.
- Roll the mixture into golf ball sized rounds between your palms and place on your prepared baking trays, with a good gap between each one to allow for spreading. Bake each tray of cookies for 12-15 minutes. Leave to cool slightly on the tray, before transferring to a wire rack.
Notes
Adapted from this recipe
Matea
Posted at 15:38h, 16 NovemberDried cranberries and white chocolate chips are one of my favorite combinations! These cookies look delicious!
Thea
Posted at 16:32h, 16 NovemberThank you Matea! I love this combination too 🙂
indigomoon3
Posted at 20:35h, 16 NovemberThank you so so so so much for this recipe!!!! I rarely have any flour except buckwheat in my cupboard – partly due to cost and partly due to availability – so I really appreciate this recipe with only one flour. As soon as I figure out how to translate grams to cups…I’ll be making these. (if you can help with that substitution I’d be very grateful 🙂 ) Since I’m a vegan I hope they will turn out with egg substitute and oil.. I live on a small island (with a modest income) so I will substitute the cranberries for blueberries as they are in the freezer…and maybe the chocolate chips for cocoa nibs….not as sweet but that’s ok. I hope that with the success of this recipe with only one flour…you might consider a sourdough buckwheat bread recipe with only one flour too….I’ll be crossing my fingers extra tight 🙂
Thea
Posted at 14:34h, 17 NovemberThanks! I don’t know if you can substitute the butter for oil but you could always try! Tell me how they turned out! I don’t think I’ll ever be able to make a good gluten free sourdough bread with only one flour… I wish I could though!
indigomoon3
Posted at 20:54h, 17 NovemberI don’t know anything about bread baking……and before I waste a lot of time and flour trying …could you help me understand why more than one flour is needed for good gluten free sourdough bread? And re the oil…it didn’t work….however I will look into some of the vegan “butters” out there…maybe there is something that will work 🙂
Thea
Posted at 15:39h, 18 NovemberWhen baking gluten free bread it’s important to use several different flours because they all have different traits and pretty strong flavors. By combining different flours you can balance out the flavors and also get the binding traits from one flour and the rising traits from another. If you only use buckwheat it will be pretty sour in a bread, this is not the case for sweet cakes though. You want to mimic wheat which is about 40% starch and 60% protein. That’s why I use both starches and high protein flours when baking bread. I hope this helped!!! It can be hard in the beginning but eventually you’ll learn to love the different flours 🙂
Mariana @The Candid Kitchen
Posted at 21:22h, 16 NovemberThese look so beautiful! And the slightly cooler lighting of Stockholm makes them look so inviting!!!
Thea
Posted at 14:35h, 17 NovemberThank you Mariana! It’s getting pretty cool and dark here right now…
Josefine {The Smoothie Lover}
Posted at 21:30h, 16 NovemberWow these look amazing Thea. I tried making my own buckwheat cookies some weeks ago and they turned out horrible. Well, not very bad, but they definitely weren’t nice the day after. But these look perfect. I think I’ll make these next time.
And I totally know how you feel abou the darkness. It is so annoying. These pictures turned out beautifully though. You’re so talented!
Thea
Posted at 14:36h, 17 NovemberThank you Josephine!! Such a shame that your cookies didn’t turn out well. Hope your next batch will be great!
Amanda
Posted at 00:33h, 17 NovemberI had the same experience with starting to think about Christmas! At first when I heard a few of the jingles playing in the hallway I was discouraged, but then I made peppermint hot cocoa and I was okay with thoughts of the holiday. I’ve never made cookies from just buckwheat flour, but how easy. I’ll give them a try. xo
Thea
Posted at 14:37h, 17 NovemberHope you’ll try them! Glad I’m not the only one with these christmas feelings. 🙂
Diana Karenina
Posted at 02:50h, 17 NovemberI LOOOOOOVE your website! And your recipes, man! Love your pics as well! Lol I´m a little bit excited about your blog 😀
Just wanted to thank you for sharing this great looking recipes!
Peace and Love <3
Thea
Posted at 14:37h, 17 NovemberThanks sooo much Diana!!! This made my day. <3
Lacey
Posted at 10:00h, 17 NovemberI can’t wait to get home this weekend and try making these cookies, they look delicious!
The recipes I’ve made of cookies (gf and not) hardly ever need chilling. I’m not sure if it’s a New Zealand thing maybe? But I do agree with you it’s too early for all the Christmas things! The only place that I won’t complain about Christmas coming early is Starbucks I think haha 🙂
Thea
Posted at 14:39h, 17 NovemberThanks Lacey! The chilling depends on the recipe and somehow I always find recipes that requires chilling… 🙁
JO JO
Posted at 09:10h, 13 MayThanks for your ingredient,I tried yesterday,And I just want to say,they tasted so so good ,Amazing! I love it so much.
Thea Tillberg
Posted at 10:31h, 13 MayThanks!