Vegan Fruit cake cookies
Embedded with candied fruits, tutti fruity, lots of dry fruits and fragrant by all spices, these soft & chew fruit cake cookies are bursting with colours, flavor and mouth melting texture.
Ingredients
1 cup = 200 ml
- 2.25 Cups 338 grams Whole wheat flour (i.e. 2 cups + 1/4 cup)
- 1/2 Cup /90 grams dried fruits (we have cranberry, strawberry, kiwi, mango, raisins & blueberry)
- 1/2 Cup /65 grams nuts (we used almonds, cashews & walnuts)
- 1 cup Vegan butter (200 grams)
- 1/2 cup orange juice (100 ml)
- 1/2 Cup /75 grams Jaggery powder or brown sugar
- 1/2 Cup /75 grams bura sugar or powdered sugar
- 1/4 tsp cloves powder
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
- Take a non stick pan and add thinly chopped dried fruits and orange juice in it.
- Simmer on low heat while keep them stirring to prevent burning.
- Cook until orange juice is completely dry and you are left with a lump of juice soaked fruits.
- Keep them aside to cool completely.
- Take a bowl and add butter in it.
- Start whisking it with the electric beater until butter turns soft, creamy and fluffy.
- Add Jaggery powder and Bura sugar.
- Give it a slight mix using spatula to prevent sugar from flying out of the bowl while beating.
- Again whisk the butter sugar mixture with electric beater and soon the mixture will turn into a creamy one.
- Add flour, cloves powder, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder and salt. Mix.
- By now dried fruits must have turned completely cool. Add them to the bowl.
- Also add roughly chopped dry fruits and vanilla essence.
- Give them a good mix.
- Now using your hand start bringing the mixture together in the form of a dough. Remember, don't knead it but only bring it together.
- Divide the dough into 2 equal portions.
- Place one portion of dough on a clean surface and using both of your hands, give it a shape of log.
- Wrap this log into a cling film and likewise prepare the log and wrap the other portion of dough too.
- Place the logs in refrigerator for 4 to 5 hours or until they are rock solid.
- After the said period, bring the log out and unwrap it.
- Cut into about 1 cm wide slices using a sharp knife.
- Arrange all the slices on a baking tray lined with greased butter paper or parchment paper.
- Bake in preheated oven @180°C/356°F in the middle rack of the oven with both the rods on for 18 to 20 minutes or until sides of the cookies begin to turn slightly brown.
- Once done, take them out of the oven and cool completely.
- Fruit cake cookies are ready. Enjoy.
Notes
- In place of cooking, you can soak the dried fruits in orange juice over night or upto 3 days in refrigerator.
- Instead of electric beater, you can use hand beater too, but that is time taking process.
- You can keep the logs in refrigerator overnight.