Fruit Cookies - eggless

Ingredients:

• 1 cup, packed - mixed fruits and nuts, chopped ( i used dried cranberries,tutty fruity and cashews)
• 1 Tbsp - Orange juice
• 1/2 Tbsp - lemon juice
• 1/2 Tbsp - Honey
• 1 stick - unsalted Butter (~ 8 Tbsp), at room temperature
• 1/3 cup - sugar
• pinch of salt
• 1/4 tsp - powdered Cloves
• 1/4 tsp - powdered nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp - Orange zest
• 1/2 tsp - pure Vanilla extract
• 1 1/3 + 2/3 cup - All purpose flour

Step1 :
Place the chopped fruits and nuts in a bowl and mix in the orange juice, honey and lemon juice. Cover the bowl and let them soak overnight at room temperature.

Step 2:
In a wide  bowl (or electric mixer) cream the butter, sugar, salt, orange zest, vanilla extract, clove and nutmeg powders until you get a smooth consistency. It took me 3-4mins using electric mixer.

Step 3:
Then add the flour to it and mix it with a spatula.Don't over mix the dough since it will develop gluten and you will end up with really tough cookies.(I f too sticky add little flour to it)
Next add the fruits along with any leftover soaking liquid and fold it onto the dough.
Divide the dough in half and place each half on the longer end of a 15" wax/parchment paper. Shape and roll it into a log. The cross-section will give you the final shape/size of your cookie.

Step 4:
When ready to bake, pre-heat the oven to 350deg. With a sharp knife cut the log into 1/2 inch rounds. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and arrange them, 1/2 inch apart.

 Step 5:
Bake for 15-20mins, checking on them every minute after the 15 minute point. When the edges start to turn a light golden take them out and enjoy.