Chewy Light Fruitcake Cookies
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Chewy Light Fruitcake Cookies. An unspiced version of our very popular dark fruitcake cookie; all the seasonal flavour of fruitcake in a chewy, crispy cookie.
Originally published Dec 2011.
Even if you are not partial to fruitcake you should try these amazing spicy and chewy cookies; they are delicious!
Cut back on some of the dried fruit if you like but even you fruitcake nay-sayers might just be surprised by this one.
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Chewy Light Fruitcake Cookies. An unspiced version of our very popular dark fruitcake cookie; all the seasonal flavour of fruitcake in a chewy, crispy cookie.
Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups chopped mixed dried fruit use whatever you like in whatever combination you like, I've used glace cherries, mixed glace citrus peel, pineapple etc
- ½ cup chopped pecans optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Lightly spray one cookie sheet with spray oil or line with parchment paper.
- In a medium sized bowl sift together flour, salt, and baking soda.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and combine thoroughly. - Add the flour mixture to the sweetened butter. Mix only enough to incorporate flour. Do not over mix. Fold in the dried fruit. Chilling the dough for an hour or so will yield best results.
- Form cookies by dropping a heaping teaspoon of dough on the prepared cookie sheet two inches apart.
- Bake until light brown around the edges, about 12-13 minutes, depending on cookie size.
- NOTE: Over baking is the biggest problem with most chewy cookies. Your oven temperature and the type of cookie sheet you use will vary the baking times considerably. When they are golden brown around the edges is the time to remove them from the oven.
- Cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a wire rack to cool thoroughly.
Notes
The timing for chewy cookies can vary between ovens. Chilling the dough does yield best results.
With any new cookie recipe I like to bake 2 or 3 cookies first as a test batch to make sure I get the baking time correct in my oven. I lke to mke a notw=e on ech recipe with baking time for my particular oven.
Make sure you let the cookies completely cool down to see if they are still soft and chewy.
Nutrition Information
Yield
24Serving Size
1 CookieAmount Per Serving Calories 138Total Fat 6gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 18mgSodium 107mgCarbohydrates 21gFiber 1gSugar 14gProtein 2g
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.
I tried making these yesterday. Followed the directions to a T. I cooked 1 tray for 12 minutes, the second for 14.
One problem I had was that the cookies spread out so flat, it was almost one big cookie. On both trays.
The first batch (cooked for 12) came out still very soft, and tasting like they weren't cooked completely.
Have yet to try the second batch but they look more done.
The brown around the edges were the 1st batch, the second batch I let brown all over.
I will try these again once I buy a silicone baking mat that will hopefully help with the issue of them spreading.
I've never had that happen. I'm wondering about your butter. Sounds like a high moisture content. Chilling the dough will help too.
Did you use whipped butter or a low fat margarine or butter? These products contain water and that might be the problem.
Oh the number of people who fail at baking because of this reason! Only butter is butter....this is 10 times truer for baking!
These were so good! Best recipe I've tried for fruitcake cookies. So chewy!
Have you ever added any cinnamon or nutmeg to this recipe? Doesn't actual fruitcake have spices in it?
Dark fruitcake does but generally not lighter coloured fruitcake. There is a similar recipe here for dark fruitcake cookies though.
I am new to Barry’s recipes. They are great
I made these today, and we love them!
Will definitely make them again.
I'm definitely going to try these for the church bake sale. They look so festive.