Okay technically dried cranberries! Summer 2025 was the first time I added dried cranberries to muffins and it was a very pleasant surprise. Last Saturday I added dried cranberries (& walnuts) to my current fave brownie which I also reinforce with a chocolate pudding mix for extra fun. My brownies will now only be made with dried cranberries and pudding!
Cranberry juice has always been a killer mix with soda water or ginger ale or orange juice – the list goes on. And it has medicinal properties that give it an added boost.
And I intend to add whole dried cranberries to my next batch of Breakfast Cookies. Cookies may feature in future as a Fave Fun Food (“FFF”) as many of my 2025 FFFs were cookies – the killer Cereal Cookie at Mello (their Cereal Milk Donut is almost as good) or the crazy expensive but wunderbar White Chocolate, Hojicha & Walnut Cookie at cowdog or the Christmas Leclerc Celebration chocolate covered Gingerbread.
I’m going to try a new idea for 2026, a monthly post of the Fun Food that made the top of my fave eats. This month is an ingredient that can make any Fun Food even better. Stay tuned for what future months unveil.
For the record, still not a fan of cranberry sauce, even if repurposed as a sundae topping…
Whitney's Fun Food Suggestions! 