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    From the Penny Plate: Christmas Fruitcake Cookies (and link to Pork N Beans)

    Published: Dec 21, 2018 · Updated: May 1, 2022 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    SORRY, KEEP HAVING ISSUES WITH PORK N BEANS LINK, CLICK HERE FOR IT..

    By Kevin Williams

    5 Compelling Use Cases For Artificial Intelligence-jw (2) Fruitcake seems to have such "love/hate" emotive influence on people.  I'm not sure I can side with the fruitcake haters, whenever I've tried it, I have liked it.  So the thought of fruitcake coming to a colorful cookie is intriguing to me.

    Reader Penny from Ontario, Canada shared her photo of the cookie along with a recipe for it that comes from a Canadian food magazine.  Which is why all the ingredients are in "regular" and "metric" below.   And the magazine calls them "mini-Christmas cake cookies", but "fruitcake cookies" seems more descriptive.

    So enjoy!  These are a colorful addition to any Christmas menu!

    From the Penny Plate: Christmas Fruitcake Cookies

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    Ingredients
      

    • Oil
    • ¾ cup 175 mL all-purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoon 5 mL ground cinnamon
    • ½ teaspoon 2 mL each nutmeg, allspice and salt
    • ¼ teaspoon 1 mL each ground ginger and baking soda
    • ⅓ cup 80 mL butter, at room temperature
    • ½ cup 125 mL packed brown sugar
    • 1 egg
    • 1 teaspoon 5 mL vanilla
    • ¼ cup 60 mL milk
    • 1½ cups 375 mL chopped glacé mixed peel
    • 1 cup 250 mL chopped toasted walnuts
    • ¼ cup 60 mL chopped candied orange peel
    • Frosty Drizzle optional, recipe follows

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
    • Lightly oil a baking sheet or line with parchment paper. In a medium-size bowl, use a fork to stir flour with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, salt, ginger and baking soda. In another bowl, use an electric mixer to beat butter with sugar for about a minute.
    • Beat egg and vanilla into butter mixture, then gradually beat in milk. Don’t worry if it separates. Using a spoon, gradually stir in flour mixture, then glacé mixed peel, nuts and orange peel.
    • Using wet hands, form dough by rounded teaspoonfuls (7 mL) into rounds, each about 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide. Place on baking sheet, a generous distance apart. Bake in centre of oven until cookies are golden, 14 to 16 minutes. Remove from oven and leave on baking sheet for 2 minutes. Remove to a rack to cool. Repeat with remaining dough. Once cooled, these cookies will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for about 5 days or in a freezer up to a month.
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

     

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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Christine

      December 21, 2018 at 11:48 am

      Christine
      December 20, 2018 at 2:49 pm
      Have you gone with the Amish across America and had a cookbook published be a Keven Williams I saw sold in a store I shop often in north-east Ohio. Did you have a part in this?

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      • Kevin

        December 21, 2018 at 12:00 pm

        Yes, Christine, I wrote most of that book. It was fun!

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