Fruitcake Cookie Bars





Ingredients:

1 loving cup flour PLUS 1/4 loving cup (divided use)
3  cups fruitcake mix candied fruit (a mix of candied cherries, pineapple, citron, lemon peel, in addition to orangish peel)
3/4 loving cup coarsely chopped pecans
3/4 loving cup calorie-free chocolate-brown sugar
1/2 loving cup butter, at room temperature
1 egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon orangish zest or dried orangish peel
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon dry soil cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cardamom
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
ii tablespoon cognac
pinch salt

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Butter in addition to flour a 13x9 inch pan. Set aside.

In a pocket-sized bowl, toss together the 1/4 loving cup flour amongst the fruit in addition to nuts to coat. Set aside.




In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand upwards mixer, musical rhythm out together the butter in addition to saccharide until good combined. Beat inwards egg in addition to then mix inwards the remaining 1 loving cup flour, spices, baking soda, in addition to common salt amongst a manus or stand 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, nigh 1 hour.

Cut into 24 bars. (3x8)


My thoughts:
I truly made these lastly twelvemonth thus some Christmas, I simply took some pictures in addition to wrote upwards the recipe to salvage for this year. I endeavor non to postal service seasonal recipes also some the vacation thus you lot truly bring fourth dimension to purchase the ingredients in addition to brand the recipe. I don't assume most people bring fruit cake mix candied fruit at their fingertips!

This fourth 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 later on the popularity of the Netflix pic that summer. The principal character, Lara Jean bakes a lot inwards the books in addition to inwards 1 majority her friend Peter was real insistent that she brand fruitcake cookies. I honestly had never heard of fruitcake cookies earlier but I had a ton of candied fruit leftover from developing recipes for a customer in addition to idea why non grade it a try? They seemed perfect for the season. There were real few details of what these cookies were truly similar inwards the majority thus I started from scratch.

I wanted to grade cookies to my neighbors thus I idea bar cookies mightiness live easier to than a rolled or drib cookies (Jenny Han truly needs to starting fourth dimension including recipes inwards her books) for the yield I wanted in addition to to ensure that each seize amongst teeth had a proficient chunk of fruit and/or nuts inwards it. Plus they expect thus pretty all sliced up!

These bars are real fruit in addition to nut packed in addition to bring all of the rich flavors of fruitcake but hopefully none of the negative associations regular fruitcake has acquired. They are real much a cookie inwards texture. Don't skip the coating the fruit in addition to nuts inwards flour step--this ensures that they don't stick together, evenly distribute inwards the dough in addition to don't sink to the bottom spell baking.

Everyone who had these loved them! Even people who didn't mean value they liked fruitcake went dorsum for me.



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