Galilean Candied Fruit Cookies: A step-by-step recipe with photos, homemade

Cookies with candied fruit – a vibrant and delicious treat, perfect with tea or coffee. Today, we'll offer you a simple, step-by-step recipe for making this delicacy yourself, with high-quality photos and detailed descriptions of each step.

Nutritional value per serving

467 kcal

Proteins: 13.7 g
Fats: 20.7 g
Carbohydrates: 56.7 g

*Nutritional value is calculated per 100g of ingredients

Total time: 1 hour
Time in the kitchen: 30 min
Complexity:

A simple recipe.
Number of servings: 30

Cookies with candied fruit have been around for quite some time. It's a known fact that the first Galilean cookies, whose recipe included shortcrust pastry and candied lemon peel, were already known in Italy in the early 16th century, but this traditional Italian sweet was called "ciceri."

Around the 18th century, these cookies gained immense popularity in England, earning a name that remains to this day: Galilean cookies. Seeking to diversify the recipe, chefs developed a variety of dough variations for this type of cookie:

shortbread (with butter and powdered sugar);
cottage cheese (with added cottage cheese);
oatmeal (made with oat flour).

Today we'll show you in detail how to make delicious Galilean cheese cookies at home, featuring beautiful cracks, a vibrant orange flavor, and natural candied peel. But if you want the result to be as close to traditional Galilean cookies as possible, use only candied lemon peel and lemon juice in the dough.

Even a novice cook or children, under the guidance of adults, can implement this simple step-by-step recipe.

Delicious cottage cheese cookies with candied fruits and nuts

Galilean cookies with candied fruit – a step-by-step recipe with photos

Ingredients

Servings

Cottage cheese

220 G
Butter

150 G
Sugar

110 G
Flour

320 G
Baking powder

1.5 tsp
Candied fruit

100 G
Cranberry

40 G
Nuts

80 G
Orange

1 pcs
Vanilla sugar

10 G
Powdered sugar

5 tbsp
Salt

1 pinch

Preparation

Step 1

Our recipe contains natural candied fruit, so first you need to prepare a mixture of chopped candied fruit and any other berries or dried fruits that you like.

You can use:

dried cherries;
raisin;
dried apricots;
prunes;
cranberries, etc.

Step 2

The next step is to prepare the orange zest. To do this, finely grate the orange peel. Avoid the white part, as it will impart a strong, bitter flavor to baked goods.

Squeeze the juice from the orange.

If you want to make lemon cookies, modify the recipe slightly by using lemon zest and juice.

Step 3

Add fresh zest to the candied fruit and soak everything with orange juice.

In addition to juice, you can use strong alcoholic drinks such as rum, cognac, brandy, whiskey, or liqueurs as a soak. Just 2-3 tablespoons will give the cookies an incredible flavor.

Step 4

Ideally, you should let the dried and candied fruits soak, stirring occasionally, for 2 hours. This will also allow all the other ingredients to warm to room temperature.

But if you need to prepare the treat quickly, 30 minutes will be enough. The liquid will be absorbed, and the candied fruit will become softer and juicier.

Step 5

Add a pinch of salt, 110 grams of sugar and 10 grams of vanilla sugar to the softened butter.

Step 6

Beat the butter and sugar until fluffy and smooth.

If you don’t have a mixer, you can simply thoroughly mix the mixture until smooth with a spatula or fork.

Step 7

Beat the egg (white + yolk) into the mixture and mix thoroughly again until smooth.

Step 8

Add the cottage cheese and mix thoroughly until smooth (if the particles are large enough, first rub the mixture through a sieve or blend with an immersion blender).

Step 9

Add candied fruit and juice if it is not completely absorbed.

Step 10

You can also add any nuts to the candied fruit, after lightly roasting them and grinding them into large crumbs (or simply chopping them with a knife).

For a uniquely delicious combination of notes, you can also add dark chocolate pieces to the recipe.

Step 11