Fruit Cake Cookies. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Snip off the hard stems of the figs with scissors or a small knife and coarsely chop the figs. In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Instead of baking or giving a traditional holiday fruitcake, make fruitcake cookies instead.
Fruitcake's first cousin in cookie form contains all the ingredients you love in fruitcake--candied cherries, chopped pecans, cinnamon, allspice and rum--just in smaller bite-sized portions.
Santa will be very pleased if you leave a plate of these treats out for him when he stops by your house this.
You can cook Fruit Cake Cookies using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Fruit Cake Cookies
- You need 1 cup of butter.
- You need 1 cup of confectioners sugar.
- You need 1 of egg.
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups of flour.
- You need 1/4 tsp. of cream of tartar.
- It's 1 tsp. of vanilla.
- You need 1 tsp. of rum flavor.
- You need 3/4 cup of candied cherries (chopped).
- You need 3/4 cup of candied pineapple (chopped).
- Prepare 3/4 cup of raisins (coarsely chopped).
- You need 1 1/2 cups of pecans (chopped).
Do you love making Christmas Cookies? I sure do and one of my favorites over the years has been these Best Ever Fruitcake Cookies. If Christmas can be put into cookie-form, then it's totally this recipe! This is an easy drop cookie recipe too.
Fruit Cake Cookies instructions
- In mixing bowl, cream butter & sugar; beat in egg, vanilla & rum flavor. Gradually add flour & cream of tartar, beating just until mixed. Stir in cherries, pineapple, raisins & nuts. Divide dough in half. Roll each into a log about 2 inches around. Wrap in wax paper – freeze firm. To bake, slice cookie rolls ¼ inch thick with a sharp knife; place on a greased baking sheet & bake at 375* for 12 – 14 minutes until lightly browned on edges. Cool on rack..
- candied pineapple.
- mixing the candied fruit, raisins, & nuts into the dough.
- fruitcake dough rolled into logs.
- sliced cookies, ready for baking.
- the fruitcake cookie.
Use a parchment paper lined cookie sheet for baking the fruit cake cookies so you are sure they won't stick. You'll notice that fruit cake cookies take a little longer to bake than traditional cookies. You don't want to overbake the cookies. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar using a hand mixer. In other words, all the flavors of the season are wrapped up in fruit cake.
