These fruit-filled cookies use honey as their sweetener.
| Servings: | 48 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon ground walnuts
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground allspice
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup honey
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup dried currants
- 1 cup dates, pitted and chopped
Instructions
- Combine flour, walnuts, baking soda, allspice, cinnamon, and salt.
- In small saucepan over low heat, melt shortening and honey, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and pour into large bowl. Stir in brown sugar, eggs and milk until well blended. Slowly add dry ingredients. Fold in raisins, currants and dates. Cover and chill for 4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Drop by spoonfuls 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly colored.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 100 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 20 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 43 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These cookies taste good but bake into a thin wafer that is easy to burn and hard to remove from the cookie sheet. I found the hotter oven of 400F+ resulted in a fluffier cookie. Also if you use a scoop, flatten the top for even baking.
Yum! I brought these to a party, and everyone raved about them. They have a delightful light, fluffy, soft & chewy texture. The spices work really well. Next time I would use more ground walnuts – I used double what the recipe called for, but couldn’t taste it at all. I ground the walnuts in our coffee grinder – so easy! I used dried cranberries because I didn’t have any dates around. The batter looks like cake batter. I refrigerated the batter for about 24 hours due to time constraints, and the extra fridge time did them no harm. I also found 400F to be too hot: 8-10 minutes at 375 is plenty for these cookies.