Best Chocolate Fruitcake Cookies Recipes

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CHOCOLATE FRUITCAKE COOKIES



Chocolate Fruitcake Cookies image

I made these to take to work and everyone raved about them. They were the first cookies to disappear so they were a big hit.

Provided by Thymestudio

Categories     Drop Cookies

Time 35m

Yield 20 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 12

1/4 cup walnuts or 1/4 cup pecans
1/4 cup almonds
1 tablespoon raisins
1 tablespoon candied citrus peel (orange and lemon)
2 ounces butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 ounce candied cherry
1/2 ounce crystallized ginger
1 tablespoon cream
1 (18 ounce) box chocolate cake mix
2 large eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil

Steps:

  • Finely chop walnuts, almonds, raisins, orange and lemon peel, cherries, and ginger.
  • Melt butter in a saucepan, then add sugar and stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
  • Bring to a boil and let it boil for 1 minute without stirring (until just turning light golden).
  • Remove from heat and mix well with cream and fruit-nut mixture.
  • Mix cake mix with two eggs and oil.
  • Combine all ingredients.
  • Scoop a heaping spoonful of dough onto cookies sheet lined with foil.
  • Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 10 - 12 minutes.
  • Enjoy!

CHOCOLATE FRUITCAKE COOKIES



Chocolate Fruitcake Cookies image

You can find this recipe as a Fruitcake in Debbie Macomber's book, Something About Christmas. She asked if she could include it.

Provided by Cynthia Thornlow

Categories     Cookies

Number Of Ingredients 19

1/2 c each dried cherries, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries
1 orange, zested, and juiced
1/2 c dark rum
1/2 c apple juice
1 c butter, soft
1 c sugar
1 c dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
3 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3/8 c baking cocoa
1 tsp cinnamon
1 c coconut, packed in cup
2 c chopped nuts, walnuts & pecans
1 pkg chocolate chips
1 small bottle with squirt/mist top filled with dark rum

Steps:

  • 1. In a medium size bowl, mix dried fuit, zest and juice of orange, rum and apple juice, cover. Microwave for 5 min. stir and cover and let set until cool.
  • 2. With a mixer cream butter and both sugars, then add eggs 1 at a time, then the vanilla.
  • 3. In a large bowl mix all the dry ingredients together with a whisk. Add to creamed mixture slowly until combined.
  • 4. Now add the cooled fruit, coconut, nuts and chips. Mixing until just combined.
  • 5. Using a cookie scoop or spoon, place dough on a parchment lined cookie sheep, 12 to a pan. Bake 18 min. at 375*. Let cool on pan for 10 min. then remove to wire rack and mist with the rum
  • 6. Pack these into a plastic container and place in your refrigerator. Like fruitcake they taste better with age..you just don't have to wait 3 weeks before you can enjoy them.

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