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Christmas Quookie recipe: Spiced cranberry & oat cookies with white chocolate drizzle

By HBF

3 MINUTES

16 December 2025

If you’ve got the festive baking bug like Buddy the quokka – you’re in luck, because we’re about to put the spice in your step this festive season with this Christmas Quookie recipe, created by the clever dietitians behind the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet.

Get the kids involved!

This is festive fuel for the whole family, and the perfect sweet treat for Santa too! Sweetened with banana, honey and jolly cranberries, the little ones can help get a fresh batch of quookies ready for Santa on Christmas Eve – to be served with a glass of milk of course. Mrs Clause sends her regards; she’s been trying to get Santa to cut back on sugar for years!

Spiced cranberry & oat cookie recipe

All the festive flavour made the CSIRO Total Wellbeing way

Serves 6
Prep 15 min | Cook 15 min

Festive cranberry oatmeal cookies

Ingredients

Honey - 3 tablespoon(s), 1/4 cup
Butter (no added salt) - 40g
Banana - 3 medium, ripe mashed
Egg yolk (raw) - 2
Rolled oats (raw) - 3 cups
Dried cranberries - 2 tablespoon(s)
Fruit, nut & seed trail mix - 135g, 3/4 cup
Mixed spice - 1 teaspoon(s), or cinnamon and ground ginger

Method

Preheat oven to 160°C fan forced.
Grease a baking tray. Line base with baking paper.
Combine the honey and butter in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 1 minute on High/100% until butter has melted. Stir until well combined. Cool for 5 minutes. Add the banana and eggs yolks, mix well.
Add the oats, cranberries, trail mix and mixed spice (if using). Mix until well combined.
Scoop tablespoon mounds onto a lined tray, flatten slightly, and bake 12–15 min. Set aside to cool completely in the tin.

TIP: Quookies will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for 1 week.

If you have any indulgence spare, drizzle with a little melted dark, or white chocolate.

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