Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

I love these cookies. They don't last long in my house.

Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs1
1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 6-ounce package Ocean Spray Craisins Original Sweetened Dried Cranberries
2/3 cup white chocolate chunks or chips

Preheat oven to 375ºF. Using an electric mixer, beat butter or margarine and sugar together in a medium-mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, mixing well. Combine oats, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate mixing bowl. Add to butter mixture in several additions, mixing well after each addition. Stir in sweetened dried cranberries and white chocolate chunks. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack.
Makes approximately 2 1/2 dozen cookies.

Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Here is a recipe that will pleaseboth moms and kids. The kids are eating veggis and they don't even know it.

Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread
2 small zucchini (app. 1/2 pound total) or 2 cups grated
4 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1-1/2 cups vegetable oil
3 eggs
1-1/2 cups milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 loaf pans, 8" X 4" Grate zucchini. In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. In another bowl combine the zucchini with all the remaining ingredients EXCEPT the chocolate chips. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just blended. Do not use a mixer and do not over-stir. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour into the prepared pans. Bake until cake tester (i.e. toothpick) stuck in the center comes out clean--about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool on a rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely.