You can find loose dried cranberries in many specialty food stores, and Ocean Spray Craisins in most supermarkets.

Split the amount of chocolate chips in your recipe by half, making up the remainder with the cranberries. Do the same with the raisins in the oatmeal cookie recipe.

The cranberries add not just holiday flavor but color, too.

• Here’s a cherry chocolate chip recipe that you can use with dried cranberries.

Make cranberry chocolate chip cookies for the
holidays. Photo courtesy Cherry Marketing Institute.