No one (aside from my grandmother) actually enjoys fruitcake. But these little cookies take the few redeeming virtues of fruitcake — namely the unnaturally colored “glace” fruits and holiday spices — and make them into a cookie that’s surprisingly addictive.
Spiced Fruitcake Jumbles
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1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking powder (NOT baking soda!)
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup dried cherries
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup golden raisins
1 cup glaced fruits (fruit cake mix)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/8 tsp ground white pepper
1 package good quality white chocolate
chips
Preheat Oven to 375 degrees
Cream butter and sugars until mixture
is fluffy.
Add eggs and vanilla, mix thoroughly. Mix spices and baking powder together.
Combine spice mixture and flour and
add to butter mixture.
Thoroughly combine flour/spice mixture butter mixture until mixture comes together and forms a loose ball. Add dried cherries, pecans, golden raisins, white chocolate chips and fruitcake mix until well combined. Using a large (2 tbsp) cookie scoop, scoop dough onto ungreased cookies sheets. Cookies do not spread much during baking. Bake 9-13 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove from oven. Let stand on cookies sheets for 1-2 minutes, then transfer to a cookie rack to cool.
These cookies improve next day!
Fruit Cakes are the specialty of my grandmother, she bakes lots of fruit cakes.*”"