I love baking Christmas cookies and this is my absolute favourite. If you ask me to describe the taste of Christmas, I will tell you that – this is it!

Perfect for those who love fruitcakes BUT loves cookies more, you will savour every taste of this Christmas Fruitcake Cookies. And the best of all, the entire house smells like Christmas when I baked these cookies.

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These crispy and crunchy yet chewy Fruitcake Cookies have the perfect texture and flavouring; a definite hit with the young and old. I don’t add brandy or rum into these cookies, just so everyone from all ages can enjoy them.

Christmas Fruitcake Cookies Recipe

This is an easy drop-cookie recipe. You won’t need mould or anything in particular to shape them. All you need is lots and lots of candied fruits and nuts to make these fantastic festive cookies.

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Baking time: 25 minutes
Serving size: 110 bite-sized cookies

Clockwise from top: Chopped pecans, chopped walnuts, diced dried apricot and diced candied mix fruits.

Ingredients:

250g salted butter
340g all-purpose flour
30g all-purpose flour (for dredging)
250g mix fruit ➡ candied red & green cherries, candied citrus & pineapple, candied dates and raisins
100g dried apricot
100g walnut
100g pecans
100g brown sugar
50g sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon fresh milk

METHOD:

Make sure to refrigerate cookie dough for 30 minutes (or overnight) before baking.

Dice the dried apricot and candied mix fruits.
Toast pecans and walnuts in the oven to bring out their flavour.
Coarsely chop pecans and walnuts.
In a large bowl, mix the diced fruits and chopped nuts.
Add flour for dredging.
Make sure the flour coats all the ingredients thoroughly.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon and salt. Mix it all together.
Cream butter and sugar in an electric mixer.
Add egg.
Meanwhile, dilute baking soda with a tablespoon of fresh milk and add it in.
Next, add the flour + nutmeg + cinnamon + salt mixture.
Turn off the electric mixer.
Transfer dough into the bowl of mixed fruit and nuts.
Mix thoroughly and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Drop cookie dough onto a lined baking tray.
Bake in a preheated oven at 170C for 25 minutes.
Let the cookies cool on the cooling rack.
Store in an airtight container and enjoy!

As Christmas is one of the happening celebrations during the year-end, my family and I always like to experimenting with a variety of foods – from cookies to main meals and others.

We understand that this year has been pretty tough to everyone – from the new norm to financial draught and etc. What we can do is to instil the happiness in every celebration like we always did, in a safer and economic way.

Try this fruit and nut-filled cookies that are pretty, practical and can bring more smiles during your Christmas. You can serve it for your family or bake more as a Christmas gifts to your love ones. So let’s start baking them now!