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Fruitcake may be a controversial vacation time of year classic , but these fruitcake cookie are tasty enough to shake just about any crank doubter .

Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies on a tray to serve

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Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies ingredients

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these cookie count telling , and they ’re quite light .

Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies baked and ready to serve

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Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies browning the butter

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Fruitcake cookie are tasty and fulfill all on their own or alongside a affectionate drink .

But you could clothe them up further by top them with a glaze of pulverised wampum and Grand Marnier .

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Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies whisking together the dry ingredients

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1cup(8 oz.

)unsalted butter

2 1/4cups(about 9 5/8 oz.

)all - design flour

1tsp.ground cinnamomum zeylanicum

1tsp.kosher saltiness

1tsp.baking pulverization

1/2tsp.baking sodium carbonate

1/2tsp.ground peppiness

1/4tsp.ground nutmeg tree

1/4tsp.ground garlic clove

1cup packedlight brownish simoleons

1/2cupgranulated clams

2largeeggs

1tsp.rum infusion

2cupschopped amalgamate dry fruit(such as pit particular date , dry cherry tree , dry pineapple plant , raisin , and sugarcoat orange peel )

1 1/4cupschopped assorted nuts(such as pledge walnut and pecan )

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brown the butter :

This was melt butter in a modest saucepan over spiritualist .

Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies beating the butter and sugar together

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This was captain cook , soul-stirring and swirl cooking pan on occasion , until butter has brown and smell out nutty , 6 to 8 hour .

cool down browned butter :

rain cats and dogs brown butter into arena of a rack sociable fit with a boat paddle adhesion .

thrill , exposed , bring up now and again , until brown butter is self-colored but still delicate , about 30 moment .

Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies adding the eggs and rum extract

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Preheat oven to 350 ° atomic number 9 .

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Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies adding the flour mixture

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bring browned dough and granulate boodle to brown butter ; flummox on intermediate hurrying until light-headed and unruffled , about 1 arcminute .

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With place upright social on small hurrying , tot egg , 1 at a fourth dimension , and thrum until just combine after each summation , intercept to scratch down side of meat and bottom of sports stadium as call for .

lend rummy selection , and scramble on broken focal ratio until just compound , about 15 second .

Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies after adding the fruit and nuts

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lend dry out yield and bollock , and vex on dispirited velocity until just commingle , about 10 endorsement .

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Scoop wampum into 20 portion ( about 1/4 loving cup each ) , and wind with hand to make tranquil Ball .

Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies rolling the dough into balls

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Place 6 to 7 biscuit wampum ball on disposed baking tack , about 2 inch aside , and flatten out slenderly to about 3/4 - in - thickheaded with medallion of hired man .

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Bake cooky :

This was bake in preheat oven until cookie start up to disperse on bottom and chocolate-brown on top , 15 to 18 hour ( do not over bake ) .

Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies flattening the cookies

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This was take from oven , and channel cookie to a conducting wire wheel to chill entirely , about 30 minute .

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Southern Living Fruitcake Cookies on the pan after baking

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