I love mango and white chocolate and until now, I had not paired the two in a baked cookie. I have no idea what I was waiting for because the flavor combo worked so well in these golden little cookies.
However, I could have eaten the whole bowl of raw dough without actually baking any cookies. It was ridiculously good.
While it was chilling in the refrigerator, I had to go run errands so that there would still be dough left to bake with because there were lots of BLTs (bites, licks, tastes) happening.
After the cookies baked and cooled, and I bit into those little morsels of chewy baked-in mango, it was such a happy surprise, and I was glad I baked them after all.
Both the white chocolate chips and the mango chunks make these cookies sweet, and although the cookies are a little thinner than I was hoping for, they are so soft and chewy.
Baking with fruit seems tends to produce thinner cookies in my experience.
Between the rum and the raisins, the Dark Rum Oatmeal Raisin Cookies were on the thinner side, but they were extremely soft and chewy, too.
But since soft and chewy is the only way I like cookies, these were just fine by me.
These were gobbled up fast.
The only thing that happens faster is drama breaking out in the OC among the ladies who lunch. I am pretty excited the new season starts Tuesday evening.
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Mango and White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes approximately 3 dozen medium-sized cookies
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white chocolate chips
1/4 cup mango, diced (I used TJ’s frozen mango chunks, diced)
1/4 cup any other type of chip or add-in: butterscotch, chocolate, toffee bits, dried mango or banana pieces, optional
Preheat oven to 350F and prepare cookie sheets with Silpat liners, parchment paper, or spray cookie sheets with cooking spray. (You could also make these cookies in muffin tins or whoopie pie pans for deep dish cookies by following these steps)
In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars. Add the egg, vanilla, cinnamon and mix. Add the baking soda, baking powder, flour and mix until just combined. The dough should be slightly thicker than normal cookie dough because the water content in the fruit will thin out the dough so ensure your dough is somewhat thicker than typical cookie and you may need to increase to 1 1/2 cups of flour. By hand, stir in the white chocolate chips and mango, diced in chocolate chip-sized bits.
Chill the dough for 15-20 minutes in the freezer or 1 hour (or more) in the refrigerator before scooping onto cookie sheets as chilled dough creates cookies that spread less when baking and these cookies do spread. Scoop the chilled cookie dough into 1-inch balls on cookie sheets, at least 2 inches apart and do not crowd them (no more than 9 cookies per cookie sheet, mine spread quite a bit). I recommend this cookie scoop for perfectly sized cookies. Bake cookies for 10 to 12 minutes, or until they are barely browned. The cookies may look pretty raw even at 12 minutes and that’s okay as they will continue to firm up as they cool out of the oven. Allow the baked cookies to remain on the cookie sheets for a few minutes to cool before attempting to move them to racks or eat them.
Store cookies in an airtight container on the countertop or store extras in the freezer for up to 3 months for longer-term storage.
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The dough was extremely good and if you don’t care about one raw egg and a little salmonella eating raw dough, you may not even get around to baking these. I almost didn’t.
But the baked cookies are easier to transport in lunch pails than gobs of raw dough.
If you’d like to eat raw dough more safely without raw egg involved, try White Chocolate & Mango Cookie Dough Bites
Today’s cookies also remind me of a fruitier and non-peanut buttery version of Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies. Something about the chewy factor and the white chocolate chips.
If you like white chocolate chips and want to go in a more cinnamon and sugary direction rather than the mango direction, you may like White Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies
The combination of mango and white chocolate feels like a warm weather cookie combination and makes me feel like spring is just around the corner.
Maybe if I eat another mango cookie the weather Gods will bring spring and warm here to stay.
It’s worth a shot, right?
Do you like white chocolate? Mango?
I love both. I have all my White Chocolate Recipes consolidated because I adore it and it’s so fun to bake with.
There’s Mango Recipes, too.
Have you ever baked or cooked with fruit?
I’ve made lots of banana-based desserts & recipes: From Peanut Butter Banana Bread (Vegan, GF) which is the moistest, densest, and richest banana bread I’ve ever had to Microwave Blueberry Banana Oat Cakes (Vegan, GF)
Cooking with oranges lends great flavor to foods: From Cranberry & Orange Ginger Mango Chutney to Orange PushUp Smoothies, fruit is fun to bake with. Especially if you can turn it into cookies.
This is a good idea! I’ve used dried mango in muffins before – it ended up yummy but ultimately, I picked out the mango in all the muffins and ate it because I go that crazy for mango!
I like how these cookies turned out really thin, though. It better showcases all the good stuff in the cookies!
mango in muffins sounds great!
Mangos?! Yuusssss!! These look so chewy and yummy! The perfect cookie :)
These remind me of spring time for some reason; they sound so fresh and sweet. I love the sky-high cookie stack photo above the recipe. One question for you: The recipe says to store on the counter in air-tight container…I’ve never used fresh produce in a cookie and I’m curious to know how long you think they’d be good on the counter for? (Not that they’d make it past day 3, but just curious). Thanks!
Well after it’s baked, it wouldn’t technically matter, more or less…the same principle as banana bread stored on the counter or a blueberry muffin on the counter. So use your judgment and common sense I’d say…a few days and either eat them (not a huge problem!) or put the in the refrig or freezer is my thought.
Always fun to try out new flavors in your cookies! I am a huge mango fan!! And cant wait fo the OC!
I’ve got my DVR programmed :)
Mango and white chocolate reminds me of the tropics and is so good together. I just made your no bake version last month but just threw the chips into the dough instead of using them as a frosting. Your baked version looks wonderful! I threw the remainder of a bag of tropical fruit trail mix into standard tollhouse type cookie base and wound up with a good batch of bars.
Glad to hear you made the nobake version and a bag of dried tropical trail mix sounds perfect. If I would have had that for these, I would have thrown that in, too!
Mango and white chocolate is one of my absolute favourite combinations.. combined with macadamia nuts would be pretty awesome too! These look delicious Averie, thanks for sharing! I love cooking with fruit, definitely looking forward to trying these :)
Ahh yes, the classic white choc and maca nut cookie and if you like nuts in your baked goods, toss them into these. I wanted to keep these nut-free and focus on the other goodies.
What an awesome combination of flavours, I never would have thought of putting mango and white chocolate together but they look like a real ray of sunshine!
They felt really summery to me!
When I saw this post title, I immediately thought of the cookie dough bites! I still have to make them. It is so happening on Wednesday and I will post how much I love them… because that will definitely be the case!
I bake with dried fruit. I made a chocolate chip cookie with banana chips once and that actually worked really well. I also did a tropical dried fruit stollen last year.
Please LMK how they turn out for you…and as you were typing this about the dried mango, I replied to another commenter re using dried mango in these cookies.
YUM. Two of my favorite flavors that I don’t eat enough of. Was the mango frozen still? I wonder if they’d be less flat if you thaw them first and then drain them? Or use dried, soaked mango?
You read my mind. Yes the mango was still frozen and had I thought about it more in advance, I should/could have thawed the mango in a bowl, waited for it to come to room temp, drained off any excess water and/or wrung the room-temp fruit out with a paper towel to soak up any water. OR..used dried mango (but I didnt have any on hand) and was hellbent on using mango in cookies at that very moment.
The thing is that the dough was not watery in the least going into the oven. It was very solid, more solid than the avg run of the mill standard choc chip cookie dough, for example…I truly think it also has to do with fruit sugars, sugar alcohols being released when heated. Because the net result was eerily similar to the rum cookies I made…same SUPER soft and chewy texture, bend-able in fact. I could geek out and go Alton Brown here forever….
those look fabulous i love mango!
I absolutely love Mango. Those cookies are very, very Summery (as I look out the window and it’s raining…ha!). This sounds like a winning combination to me….love white chocolate.
I like both white chocolate and mango, but have never had them together. Sounds great though!
I am not afraid of raw cookie dough at all … or raw eggs. I’ve never heard of someone actually getting sick from raw eggs. My dad used to drink about 20 a day when he was into body building!
Mango in a cookie?!?! Oh YA! Gotta try these!!!
Just make sure you chill the dough first if you make them. And I need to make your truffles from today!
I absolutely LOVE white chocolate. I would much rather have white chocolate than milk chocolate or dark chocolate. Have you ever had one of those White Chocolate Macadamia Cliff bars? Delicious. These cookies look fantastic. I love the idea of pairing white chocolate and mango together.
Baking with blueberries and also with bananas are always a hit in my house. I love banana bread and also blueberry muffins/pancakes. They are all hits in our house!
Yes those Cliff bars are awesome. I love those things.
Baking with blueberries…I need to do more of that! I fell out of the habit and it’s been too long!