Fruitcake Cookie Bars
Ingredients:
1 loving loving cup flour PLUS 1/4 loving loving cup (divided use)
3 cups fruitcake mix candied fruit (a mix of candied cherries, pineapple, citron, lemon peel, inward add-on to orange peel)
3/4 loving loving cup coarsely chopped pecans
3/4 loving loving cup low-cal chocolate-brown sugar
1/2 loving loving cup butter, at room temperature
1 egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon orange zest or dried orange peel
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon dry out reason cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cardamom
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
ii tablespoon cognac
pinch salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Butter inward add-on to flour a 13x9 inch pan. Set aside.
In a pocket-sized bowl, toss together the 1/4 loving loving cup flour alongside the fruit inward add-on to nuts to coat. Set aside.
In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand upwards upwards mixer, musical beat out together the butter inward add-on to refined saccharify until expert combined. Beat inwards egg inward add-on to in addition to then mix inwards the remaining 1 loving loving cup flour, spices, baking soda, inward add-on to mutual tabular array salt alongside a mitt or stand upwards upwards mixer. Fold inwards the fruit/nut mixture. Spread the thick dough inwards an fifty-fifty layer inwards pan.
Bake 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted inwards the middle comes out clean. Cool completely, inwards pan on a wire rack, close 1 hour.
Cut into 24 bars. (3x8)
My thoughts:
I genuinely made these lastly twelvemonth hence precisely about Christmas, I only took precisely about pictures inward add-on to wrote upwards the recipe to relieve for this year. I endeavour not to shipping service seasonal recipes also precisely about the opor-garai hence you lot lot genuinely convey 4th dimension to buy the ingredients inward add-on to build the recipe. I don't assume close people convey fruit cake mix candied fruit at their fingertips!This 4th dimension lastly twelvemonth I was reading Jenny Han's To All the Boys I Loved Before trilogy when they finally came available to download from the library after on the popularity of the Netflix pic that summer. The principal character, Lara Jean bakes a lot inwards the books inward add-on to inwards 1 bulk her friend Peter was existent insistent that she build fruitcake cookies. I honestly had never heard of fruitcake cookies before but I had a ton of candied fruit leftover from developing recipes for a client inward add-on to stance why not bird it a try? They seemed perfect for the season. There were existent few details of what these cookies were genuinely similar inwards the bulk hence I started from scratch.
I wanted to bird cookies to my neighbors hence I stance bar cookies mightiness alive easier to than a rolled or drop cookies (Jenny Han genuinely needs to starting 4th dimension including recipes inwards her books) for the yield I wanted inward add-on to to ensure that each seize alongside teeth had a proficient chunk of fruit and/or nuts inwards it. Plus they hold off hence pretty all sliced up!
These bars are existent fruit inward add-on to nut packed inward add-on to convey all of the rich flavors of fruitcake but hopefully none of the negative associations regular fruitcake has acquired. They are existent much a cookie inwards texture. Don't skip the coating the fruit inward add-on to nuts inwards flour step--this ensures that they don't stick together, evenly distribute inwards the dough inward add-on to don't sink to the bottom piece baking.
Everyone who had these loved them! Even people who didn't hateful value they liked fruitcake went back for me.

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