Fruitcake Cookies
Matrey Law’s Fruitcake Cookies offer a fun, easy, and delicious twist on traditional fruitcake. This recipe is ideal for your holiday dessert menu and makes the best Christmas cookies!
Equipment
- Stand or hand-held mixer
- Baking sheets
- Parchment paper
- Wire cooling racks
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 3 cups flour all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 Tablespoons Sherry flavoring This is hard to find, so I use 1 Tablespoon Lemon extract & 1 Tablespoon Cherry flavoring
- Pinch of salt
- 7 cups chopped pecans
- 1 lb. candied pineapples
- 1 lb. candied cherries
- 1 lb white raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- Chop cherries, pineapples, and pecans in a large mixing bowl. Add raisins. Stir in 1 cup of flour. Thoroughly coat all ingredients with flour. Set aside.
- Mix butter and brown sugar in a separate bowl using a mixer, creaming until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, milk, 2 cups of flour, cinnamon, soda, lemon and cherry flavoring, and salt; mix well.
- Add the butter mixture to the nuts, fruit, and raisins mixture and stir with a wooden spoon. Mix well.
- Drop cookie dough by teaspoonfuls at least 2 inches apart onto parchment paper-lined (or greased) baking sheets. Bake at 300 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to wire racks.
- Yield: about five dozen.
Notes
Tips & Twists
- For extra nutty flavor, add 1 teaspoon of almond extract
- Using kitchen scissors is a quick and easy way to chop sticky, candied fruit. Leave the fruit in its container and sprinkle 1 teaspoon of flour to coat the fruit. Use the scissors to cut the fruit without removing it from the container.
- Add 1 lb chopped dates
- Add 7 oz of coconut
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the cookie dough onto the baking sheet.
- These cookies can be stored in the freezer for up to 3 months. Wrap cookies in plastic wrap and freeze in an airtight container.
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content may vary depending on the brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and other factors.