Best Fruit Drops Ii Recipes

HOLIDAY FRUIT DROPS

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These are chewy dropped cookies with a wonderful brown-sugar flavor. They're just ideal for Christmas. Recipe from one of the little recipe pamphlets Pillsbury used to include in their bags of flour at Christmastime.

Provided by Lorraine of AZ

Categories Dessert

Time 35m

Yield 36 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, at room temperature
2 cups light-brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans or 1 1/2 cups walnuts
2 cups candied cherries, halved
2 cups cut-up pitted dates

Steps:

Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Reserve.
Cream the softened butter and add the brown sugar and eggs. Beat until mixture is light and fluffy.
Add the buttermilk, vanilla, and flour mixture. Mix well. Stir in the nuts, cherry halves and cut-up dates.
Drop by teaspoonfuls on lightly greased cookie sheets. If you wish, you may top each cookie with a nut half for decoration. Bake in preheated oven 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly browned.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 200.6, Fat 8.8, SaturatedFat 3.6, Cholesterol 25.4, Sodium 116.3, Carbohydrate 29.4, Fiber 1.6, Sugar 18.4, Protein 2.4

FRUIT DROP COOKIES

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This was my Aunt Margaret K. Sims' specialty! She made them by the hundreds for Christmas gifts. A tin of her cookies was always a favorite holiday treat. Aunt M always added flour to everything she baked, even cake mix. So add an extra third to half cup of flour to this mixture, and your cookies will turn out nice and mounded. As is, they spread out quite a bit.

Provided by cathyfood

Categories Dessert

Time 1h40m

Yield 6 dozen, 72 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

1 cup shortening
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk or 1/2 cup water
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped pecans
2 cups candied cherries, cut in half
2 cups cut-up dates
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Steps:

Cream shortening, sugar, and eggs.
Stir in buttermilk or water.
Blend dry ingredients, stir into egg mixture.
Add fruit and nuts, stir into batter.
Chill batter at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, 2 inches apart, onto parchment lined baking sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, until almost no print remains when touched.
Remove to rack to cool. Cool completely before storing in tins or sealed plastic bins, with wax paper between layers to prevent sticking.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 100.4, Fat 4.7, SaturatedFat 0.9, Cholesterol 5.2, Sodium 39.3, Carbohydrate 14.1, Fiber 0.7, Sugar 8.7, Protein 1.2

CHRISTMAS FRUIT DROP COOKIES

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Why wait for the holidays to make a chewy, fruit- and nut-packed homemade cookie? They're delicious.

Provided by Betty Crocker Kitchens

Categories Dessert

Time 2h40m

Yield 96

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup shortening
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
3 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups candied cherries, cut in half
2 cups chopped dates
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
Pecan halves, if desired

Steps:

In large bowl, beat brown sugar, shortening, buttermilk and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed until blended, or mix with spoon. Gradually stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Stir in cherries, dates and chopped pecans. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour.
Heat oven to 375°F. Grease cookie sheet. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto cookie sheet. Place a pecan half on each cookie.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched lightly. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 85, Carbohydrate 12 g, Cholesterol 5 mg, Fat 1/2, Fiber 1 g, Protein 1 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, ServingSize 1 Cookie, Sodium 45 mg