Fruit and Nut Cookies
Fruit and Nut Cookies

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, fruit and nut cookies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Jump to the Fruit and Nut Chocolate Cookies Recipe or read on to see our tips for making them. These chocolate cookies are packed with chopped nuts, dried fruit and chocolate. They were originally inspired by Joanne's favorite chocolate bar: Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Milk Chocolate Bar.

Fruit and Nut Cookies is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Fruit and Nut Cookies is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have fruit and nut cookies using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fruit and Nut Cookies:
  1. Make ready 125 grams Butter, chopped
  2. Take 75 grams Caster sugar
  3. Get 75 grams Brown sugar
  4. Make ready 1 no Egg, beaten
  5. Take 185 grams Plain flour
  6. Take 1/4 teaspoon Baking soda
  7. Prepare 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
  8. Get 1 cup Cashew nuts, chopped (lightly roasted)
  9. Take 1/3 cup Raisins, halved

Wrap in waxed paper or clear wrap and chill overnight or until firm. A versatile and crumbly shortbread cookie with your favourite combination of fruit and nuts; recently described by a friend of mine as moorish! I have used pistachio's and dried cranberries here but other great combinations include white chocolate and cranberries. However today I wanted to try a different flavour and instead experimented with these Fruit & Nut Breakfast Cookies which went down a treat.

Instructions to make Fruit and Nut Cookies:
  1. Preheat oven at 160°C for 10 minutes.
  2. Beat butter, sugars, egg and vanilla essence in a bowl with electric mixer until smooth. Stir in sifted flour and baking soda mixture. Add cashew nuts and raisins, mix well.
  3. Drop level tablespoons of mixture about 5 cm apart onto a baking paper lined oven tray, press down lightly. Bake for 15 minutes or until browned. Stand cookies 2 minutes before lifting onto wire rack to cool.
  4. NOTES - Sift together the flour and baking soda.
  5. Any kind of fruit and nut can be substituted for cashew nuts and raisins. The original recipe calls for walnuts and choc bits.
  6. For measuring fruit and nut i used 250 ml measuring cup.
  7. Recipe source - cafe cakes by Australian Women's Weekly.

Add the flour, nuts, and fruit, and stir until just combined. Remove the cookies from the oven, and transfer them to a rack to cool. When completely cool, wrap airtight and store at room temperature; freeze for longer storage. Sift dry ingredients and add to first mixture. Mint cake sprinkled with powdered sugar on dark surface with fresh oranges mandarins.

So that is going to wrap it up for this exceptional food fruit and nut cookies recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am confident you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!