Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
I'll try these too. I love fruit cakes...no, I adore fruit cakes and can't find them most of the year. I've thought of taking thin slices of fruit cakes, smushing them down flat and baking them slowly so they would hopefully get crisp.
I LOVE fruit cake...
Here's my recipe for Fruit cake chews
1 3/4 cups flour,3/4 cup brown sugar, 2 tblsp. sugar 1/2 cup shortening,1/4 cup milk,1/2 tsp.baking powder,1/2 tsp. salt,1 egg,1 1/2 cups chopped pecans,1 61/2 oz. pkg.red candied cherries,1 4oz. pkg. green candied cherries, orange flavor liquier.
in large bowl measure the first 7 ingredients with 3 tblsps. orange liquier. Mix on low speed until blended. With wooden spoon stir in pecans and cherries or fruit of your choice. I like to use candied citrus peel in place of the green cherries. I also replace the liquier with 2 tblsps orange juice and 1 tblsp. amoretta. You could substitute another choice of your taste.
I drop these onto greased cookie sheets about 1 1/2 inch apart and bake @ 400 degrees about 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool and store in tightly covered container . Store up to 2 weeks if they last that long. I have stored mine in the crisper drawer of the fridge in a container with a clean white cloth soaked in wine in the container. It keeps them moist and enhances the flavor. I just can't keep them for very long because I can't keep from eating them. I'm the only one in my household that likes them and I can go through them pretty fast.