Cookie Making - Fruit and Nut

I decided to post about my fruit and nut cookies

These chewy things

are my favorite Holiday time Cookie

Christmas or Thanksgiving or New Years

  I  make these little jewels

candied cherries and pineapple with a squeeze of lemon to brighten it up

parchment paper is very handy, I think
... so I always use it to bake on

ingredients 

1 cup brown sugar

two sticks of margarine (1/2 lb)

four lrg eggs

three cups flour all purpose

three teaspoon of baking soda

two tea of cinnamon (or more)

one teaspoon of nutmeg (or more)

FRUIT :

two cups of dates

two cups of candied red and green cherries

two cup candied pineapple

one cup yellow raisins

one cup currents

six cups of nuts such as pecan or walnuts or brazil nuts

3-5 tablespoons of apricot brandy or rum (if you like )

I like to chop up all the fruit and nuts and

cover them in a cup of the flour.

  add the spices and rum (or apricot brandy)

In another bowl :

cream the margarine, sugar

  then add eggs and vanilla

gradually add the flour mixture and fruit

to the sugar /egg mixture

and combine them well

drop by teaspoon onto the cookie sheet

and bake at 300 for 15 to 20 minutes

they will be soft and moist and chewy.

hope you like !

I Hope that in The New Year

we all enjoy

more peace

more love and tolerance 

 Basically...More sweetness

- KAT -
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