These cottage cheese drop cookies with candied fruits are light, tender mounds of decadent eating pleasure that are simply the best. With a soft and cake like interior, the taste from the marriage of candied pineapple, crystallized ginger and nuts once united with the cottage cheese in this cookie makes it special. This soft and chewy cookie recipe with candied fruits is one that is ideal for festive holiday cookies as well as any day that you want to turn into your own special holiday. In this post, I’ll how to make these cookies and some helpful baking tips.
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Why These Soft and Chewy Cottage Cheese Cookies are Sensational
The cottage cheese cookies are soft and yet chewy for a contrast of textures from the candied pineapple, crystallized ginger and walnuts in this recipe.
The cottage cheese is what contributes extra moisture and tenderness to these candied fruit cookies as well as flavor.
Thanks to cottage cheese and nuts, the protein in these crystallized ginger cookies is increased.
Easy preparation is another reason why these cottage cheese cookies with candied fruits are worth trying. The most that you’ll exert yourself is gathering all the ingredients, creaming them, loading these drop cookies by spoonfuls onto your cookie sheets before baking.
Baking Tips for Superior Cookies
Soften your butter before attempting to cream it. If you take it out of the freezer, you can put it in a covered microwave dish to heat for about five seconds or so, which helps soften it somewhat.
Gather up all the ingredients before starting will save you time. It is easier to finish a recipe when you don’t need to hunt for ingredients once you started.
You can make festive holiday cottage cheese cookies intermixing red candied cherries on tops of some and green candied cherries on the tops of others. The appearance really sets a seasonal mood to usher in holiday cheer.
Give my recipe for cottage cheese cookies with candied fruits a try. (I always have great success using Paradise candied fruits). I honestly think that once you bake a batch that you’ll be delighted that you made them. They go so well with a cup of coffee or a cold glass of milk when you need a scrumptious snack.
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How to Make the Best Ever Cottage Cheese Cookies with Candied Fruits
½ cups of softened butter
1 ½ cups of sifted all-purpose flour
2/3 cups of sugar
1 large egg
2 tablespoons of milk
½ teaspoons of baking powder, leveled
1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, leveled
½ teaspoons of vanilla
½ cups of 4% milk fat cottage cheese
½ cups of chopped candied pineapple
½ cups of finely chopped crystallized ginger
½ cups of chopped walnuts
green or red candied cherries, cut in halves
- Take a large mixing bowl and beat the softened butter with your electric mixer until creamy.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda in another mixing bowl. Add half of these dry ingredients to the creamed butter and mix through before adding the sugar, cottage cheese, egg, milk, and vanilla along with the rest of the flour.
- Beat these ingredients thoroughly, stirring occasionally until the well incorporated.
- Stir in the candied fruits and chopped nuts.
- Drop by heaping teaspoons 2-inches apart onto well-greased cookie sheets.
- Place a candied cherry half on the top of each mound of cookie dough.
- Bake at 375-degrees for about 8 to 10 minutes, depending on how your oven is regulated or the size of the cookies you form. The bottoms will be slightly brown to test for doneness. You can also touch the top to see if it springs back is another way to determine that it is ready to take out of oven.
- Leave in the pan for about a minute before removing and placing on rack to finish cooling.
- ENJOY!
With a soft and cake like interior, the taste from the marriage of candied pineapple, crystallized ginger and nuts once united with the cottage cheese in this cookie makes it special.
Course:
Dessert, Snack
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
candied fruit cookies, cottage cheese cookies, cottage cheese cookies with candied fruits, drop cookies, soft and chewy cookies
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½
cups
of softened butter -
1 ½
cups
of sifted all-purpose flour -
2/3
cups
of sugar -
1
large egg -
2
tablespoons
of milk -
½
teaspoons
of baking powder
leveled -
1/4
teaspoon
of baking soda
leveled -
½
teaspoons
of vanilla -
½
cups
of 4% milk fat cottage cheese -
½
cups
of chopped candied pineapple -
½
cups
of finely chopped crystallized ginger -
½
cups
of chopped walnuts -
green or red candied cherries
cut in halves
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Take a large mixing bowl and beat the softened butter with your electric mixer until creamy.
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Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda in another mixing bowl. Add half of these dry ingredients to the creamed butter and mix through before adding the sugar, cottage cheese, egg, milk, vanilla along with the rest of the flour.
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Beat these ingredients thoroughly, stirring occasionally until the well incorporated.
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Stir in the candied fruits and chopped nuts.
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Drop by heaping teaspoons 2-inches apart onto well-greased cookie sheets.
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Place a candied cherry half on the top of each mound of cookie dough.
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Bake at 375-degrees for about 8 to 10 minutes, depending on how your oven is regulated or the size of the cookies you form. The bottoms will be slightly brown to test for doneness. You can also touch the top to see if it springs back is another way to determine that it is ready to take out of oven.
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Leave in the pan for about a minute before removing and placing on rack to finish cooling.
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ENJOY!
