White Chocolate Covered Cranberries

I don’t remember who the designer was at Jingle Ball 2023 who shared their recipe for white-chocolate covered cranberries. The recipe looked very easy. I tried it and loved the result. Ever since then, i have made this treat whenever fresh cranberries have been available.

I pick only the best, Canadian cranberries - preferably from a family farm.

They are rinsed and dried by rolling them around on a terry (or other absorbent) kitchen towel. 

I don’t have a double boiler for melting the white chocolate chips so I put about an inch of water in a large pot and heat it up. Then I put a bowl with steep-ish sides in the hot water and add a bag of the white chocolate chips. A Pyrex or Corelle bowl would probably work, too.

When the chips begin to melt, I remove the pot from the heat. The hot water is enough to keep the chips melted.

Stirring things around helps melt to a smooth texture.

Then I dump handfuls of cranberries into the melted chocolate. This is a good way to feel for and discard any ‘squishy’ cranberries. There was only one squishy one in the whole bag!

Stir them around covering with the melted chocolate. Then spoon each one onto a parchment-covered cookie sheet.

I downloaded an app to count the berries (I just did a search for a ‘counting’ app. It was a three-day trial so I cancelled the subscription right after using it so I wouldn’t have to pay). It looks like it missed 2 of them on this sheet Including the 2 missed ones there were 118 on this sheet

and 67 on the next cookie sheet.

They’re in the fridge now, chocolate is cooling and hardening. Once they’re hardened up, they can be removed from the parchment paper and stored in containers in the fridge. They’ll stay loose until enjoyed.

There are other fresh cranberry treat recipes out there - some having them soak in ginger ale or orange juice for several hours then rolled in sugar and baked. This is WAY easier.

That’s another thing off my ‘to do’ list.

The result is a bit of crunch of the fresh cranberry, then sweetness of the white chocolate mixed with the tartness of the berry. Try it!