This recipe makes a lot of cookies and they are scrumptious! What makes them extra delicious are the fruit drops!
How To Make Fruit Drops
Ingredients
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- ½ cup yogurt, or sour cream
- 3½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1½ cups pecan halves, roasted and chopped
- ¾ cup pecan halves, not-roasted, chopped
- 2 cups glazed fruits
- 2 cups pitted dates, chopped
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 385 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt then set aside.
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In a mixing bowl with a mixer attachment, combine brown sugar and shortening. Cream for roughly 8 minutes until pale and doubled in volume.
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Add yogurt or sour cream and eggs then continue creaming.
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Fold in the sifted four mixture into the wet mixture until evenly incorporated.
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Finally, fold in the chopped pecans, glazed fruits, and dates until evenly incorporated.
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Cover, then transfer the dough to a chilled area. Allow dough to rest for at least an hour.
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Portion roughly 1½ to 2 ounce of cookie dough onto your baking sheet, inches apart from each other.
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Place a pecan half on each portioned cookie dough.
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Transfer to the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until fully baked, or no indentation remains when touched lightly.
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Allow the cookies to cool completely on cooling racks before serving.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 6g
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- Calcium: 9mg
- Calories: 78kcal
- Carbohydrates: 11g
- Cholesterol: 4mg
- Fat: 3g
- Fiber: 1g
- Iron: 1mg
- Potassium: 28mg
- Protein: 1g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Sodium: 52mg
- Vitamin A: 92IU
- Vitamin C: 1mg
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