Appropriate for Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, these cheesy leftover cranberry sauce cookies are the best way to use up leftovers! The mixture of sweet and salty makes these cookies perfect for the savory dessert lover!
BRING ON SPRING!
Okay, I don't need to shout but even though spring is here, we've had some hiccups already. Beautiful temperatures for days, and then SNOW. Why, Canada?! Then again, our snow in Ontario was minimal compared to Newfoundland! I'm hoping spring is here to stay now 🙂
On that note, bloggers from across Canada have gotten together to bring you this Bring on Spring round-up of new spring-related recipes! Always a pleasure working with my fellow Canadian food bloggers 🙂 Many thanks to Melanie from The Refreshanista for putting this altogether 🙂
Cranberries have always been a favorite of mine, however, cranberry sauce was not! I've talked about this before so I will not dwell but I want to tell you there is a BIG difference between canned and store-bought cranberry sauce. The recipe I used for these cheesy leftover cranberry sauce cookies was my pear cranberry sauce 🙂 Slowly updating old posts so don't mind the frightful pics 🙂
Leftover cranberry sauce is never a bad thing and I wanted to showcase what you can do with this wonderful creation. If you didn't already know, I am a regular contributor over at The Weary Chef. Back in December I created these leftover cranberry sauce pancakes. We LOVED them and I kind of deemed myself the Queen of Leftovers 🙂 So if you have a TON of leftover cranberry sauce, be sure to pop over there 🙂
📖 Recipe
Cheesy Leftover Cranberry Sauce Cookies
A savory cookie that is great for using up leftovers!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
- ½ cup butter, cut into smaller chunks and chilled
- ¼ cup + 3 tbsp. buttermilk
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ¼ tsp. paprika
- Leftover cranberry sauce
Instructions
- Sift flour into a large mixing bowl. Add cheese, salt, and paprika. Mix to combine. Add butter and cut in with pastry blender or fork. Cut until blended and pea-sized balls form.
- Stir in ¼ cup milk and mix. Add 1 tbsp. milk until batter just holds together (you don't want it too wet, so add milk slowly.) Gather into a ball, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and chill for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
- Lightly flour surface. Roll dough out (between ⅛-1/4 inch thick.) Cut into rounds, roll out dough again, and continue until no dough remains. Refrigerate rounds.
- Preheat oven to 375F. Line baking sheet with silicone liner or parchment paper.
- Place half the rounds onto the pan. Add cranberry sauce to each cookie. Cover with remaining cookie rounds. Press down gently (doesn't have to be sealed.) Bake for 13 minutes, or until golden.
Notes
If you find your dough is too crumbly,add more milk. Add milk slowly as you don't want to make the dough too wet!
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 129Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 121mgCarbohydrates: 13gFiber: 0gSugar: 4gProtein: 3g
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Maria
"Queen of leftovers" ... I love it! I am always surprised at the creativity of dishes with the use of leftovers. Great post, thanks for sharing. Great collaborative round-up... let's hope spring will be with us for good 🙂
Kacey
Thanks, Maria! I hope spring is great for all of us 🙂
Jo-Anna Rooney
Mmmmm what at delicious sweet and savoury combination! We alway seem to have leftover cranberry sauce, and now I know a new way to use it up...love it!
Kacey
Thank you! It is a fun way to use it up 🙂
Diana L.
I usually use up any cranberry sauce on my turkey sandwiches that follow a large turkey dinner. However, these cheesy cookies look might tasty! Mmmmm... gotta love cranberries.
Kacey
Same with my husband! I actually love it over my mother-in-law's vegetarian stuffing 🙂 Never enough in my opinion 🙂
Vicky Chin
Looks delicious ! Love the idea of cheese and cranberry sauce together, and they are so colourful ! I wouldn't have thought of that ! I need to learn more from the Queen of Leftovers ! Really, I feel bad every time I have to throw away leftovers ! What a great round-up ! Thanks for sharing and Happy Spring !
Kacey
Thank you!! Haha, yeah, my family can only eat a meal for so long before they are sick of it, so revamping leftovers is just so much fun!
Dana Sandonato
This idea is awesome, Kacey! I made WAY too much cranberry sauce for our Friendsgiving celebration last year and ended up with a tub of it in my freezer. Sadly I had to pitch it since I had to make more room. Next time, I know what to do with it.
Kacey
I'm with you, Dana! I hate throwing stuff out (and I am soooo bad for forgetting items in my freezer.)
Nicoletta @sugarlovespices
Like your pictures! They are so lively and cheerful! As are these cookies. I've never had anything like that and I am really intrigued. I am pretty sure I am going to love them, with that sweet and salty flavor and the cranberry sauce peeking out at every bite 🙂 !
Kacey
Thank you! I'm weird and totally love cranberry sauce and cheese so when I was trying to come up with something, I thought "why not a biscuit?" It seemed to have worked! We ate them all that night, haha 🙂
All That I'm Eating
I like that these look a bit like Jammy Dodgers! A lovely way to use up leftovers.
Kacey
Thank you!
Julia
So, I'm obsessed with these! I opened this page yesterday and left it on in order to read it properly when I had time! A - the pictures are gorgeous. B - cheese cookies? Yes, please! Sign me up! I love anything cheesy and baked. I actually made cheese cookies a couple of weeks ago for a #RecipeNod collaborations. I ate them all myself, there were 50!! I love the combination with the cranberry sauce!
Kacey
Julia, you are too sweet! Thank you so much. Seriously though, I LOVE your photography and recipes! Teach me your ways! We really need to get together!
Mel @ The Refreshanista
Yum! I'm more of a fan of savoury than sweet so these are totally my kind of cookies 🙂 I love the sound of the cheese and cranberry combo! And those pics are just gorgeous, love the bright colours!
Kacey
Thank you, Mel!! It was fun working with you again 🙂
Ginger Wroot
Between these unique and lish-looking savory cookies and the to-die-for General Tso's meatballs, I can tell that you know how to get creative with food, and in a good way! I adore your lovely blog, with wonderful styling and photos--they make me want to head to the kitchen right now and start making some of your unique recipes! All my best to you! --G
Kacey
Yay!!! Thank you so much for the kind words! I have a love-hate relationship with my photography, but it seems to be drawing people in 🙂
Evelyne CulturEatz
Your cookies are so CHEESY!!!! In the best of way, wow these look yummy! Yeah I don,t touch canned cranberry sauce, my mom made hers from scratch, that was the best. great combo with cheese. I want some now! Happy Easter!