Cranberry and Clementine Oaties

This recipe is so versatile, the dough is a great base for adding whatever ingredients you may have in the cupboard (in my case I had half a packet of cranberries that needed finishing!) I love cranberry and orange together. What ever happened to those cranberry and orange ice lollies?? They were so good! I think they were from delmonte....anyone? No? Ahhh well I will have to make some when it starts to warm up.

I digress! I decided to add clementine zest to these instead of orange, just to mix things up a bit, and it worked nicely. I wanted to carry the citrus-y flavour through the icing aswell, so I just made a simple 'drizzle' icing of powdered/icing sugar mixed with fresh lemon juice.

There are unlimited variations of flavours you could use in this dough. You could add other spices like ground cardamon, nutmeg or allspice, dried fruits, peanut butter, chocolate, nuts and seeds, the list goes on. Happy Experimenting!

Adapted from Food Network's Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

Ingredients (makes 25)

Dough
1/2 cup softened butter
3/8 cup granulated sugar
3/8 cup light muscavado sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup plain flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup cranberries
zest of 1 clementine (2 if you want to up the flavour)

Icing
Juice of one small lemon
about 6 heaped tablespoons of icing sugar

Method
Preheat oven to 180c. and line two baking sheets. Cream together the butter and sugars until fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat well. In a separate bowl mix together the dry ingredients, then add to wet mix and beat to combine. Add the cranberries and clementine zest and mix until evenly dispersed. Drop tablespoons of dough onto the lined baking sheets, slightly apart. Bake for 10- 12mins until just golden brown on top. Cool on a wire rack. While biscuits are cooling, mix together the lemon juice and icing sugar to make a 'drizzly' icing. If the icing is too wet, add more sugar a tablepoon at a time. If too thick, add more lemon juice until you get the right consistency.