Fruit Cake Cookie Bars
These chewy Fruit Cake Cookie Bars will melt in your mouth. This Christmas dessert with pecans, dried cherries and pineapple has a rum glaze.
Servings: 20
Calories: 313kcal
Ingredients
For the cookie bars:
- 2 cups pecan halves
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup self-rising flour
- Dash of salt
- ½ pound candied pineapple (chopped)
- ½ pound candied cherries (chopped)
For the Glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon rum extract (or ½ teaspoon vanilla extract)
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons chopped pecans (for topping)
Instructions
- Spread pecans evenly over the bottom of a greased 10x15x1” baking pan.
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Crema together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla. Beat well.
- Add the flour and salt. Blend well.
- Spoon the batter over the pecans. Dampen your hands and gently press to spread the dough evenly over the pecans.
- Sprinkle the chopped fruit over the batter. Press down on the fruit slightly so it pushes gently into the dough.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 50-55 minutes.
- Once the bars are cooled, prepare a powdered sugar glaze.
- Whisk together the powdered sugar, vanilla and 3 tablespoons of heavy cream. If needed, add additional heavy cream until the glaze is at drizzling consistency.
- Drizzle the glaze over the cooled bars.
- Sprinkle with chopped pecans, if desired.
- Cut the bars and store in an airtight container.
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Notes
The calories shown are based on the cookies being cut into 20 pieces, with 1 serving being 1 cookie bar. Since different brands of ingredients have different nutritional information, the calories shown are just an estimate. **We are not dietitians and recommend you seek a nutritionist for exact nutritional information.**
Nutrition
Calories: 313kcal | Carbohydrates: 46g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 33mg | Sodium: 53mg | Potassium: 79mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 205IU | Vitamin C: 1.7mg | Calcium: 33mg | Iron: 0.7mg