Ingredients
3 cups AP flour
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
½ cup butter (softened)
½ tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbs milk or cream
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
¾ cup of nuts (I use pecans but can use anything)
¾ cup dried cranberries ( you can also use any dried fruit – apricot, mango, cherry
1 cup white chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 and prepare baking sheets with parchment paper
In a mixer beat butter and sugar until well blended, scraping as needed.
on low speed add eggs, vanilla and milk/or cream until fully mixed.
In a separate bowl mix flour, salt, baking soda, then add slowly to the mixer.
Once fully incorporated, add nuts, cranberries and chocolate. Do not over mix. Do this with a spatula if you don’t want it broken up too much.
Drop by rounded spoonful onto the baking sheets, and bake 11 – 13 mins until golden around edges.
cool on a wire rack.
Variations – You can add any kind of dried fruit you prefer, although I would keep to soft and chewy dried fruit rather than things like kiwi and banana chips. You can also use normal chocolate chips and whatever kind of nut you want.
The story:
Like any recipe this one came about from a standard chocolate chip recipe and I modified it to what you see today. I used to take them to work to share with my co-workers. One of them started calling them “crack” cookies as you can’t eat just one and were highly addicting. The name stuck and they have been “crack” cookies in my house every since.