Bettie's Fruitcake Cookies

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup honey
• 2 large eggs
• 1/4 cup dark rum or pineapple juice
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 1/2 cups flour, all-purpose
• 1/2 teaspoon cloves ground
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice ground
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg ground
• 3 cups walnuts chopped
• 1 cup candied cherries chopped
• 1 cup golden raisins
• 3/4 cup candied orange peel chopped
• 1/2 cup candied pineapple chopped

1. In a mixing bowl, beat butter until light; continue beating while adding honey in a fine stream.
2. Beat in eggs and rum.
3. Dissolve baking soda in milk; add to honey mixture.
4. Sift together flour, cloves, allspice and nutmeg.
5. Stir half of the flour mixture into honey mixture.
6. Toss nuts, cherries, raisins, orange peel and pineapple with remaining flour; fold into dough.
7. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
8. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
9. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons onto greased cookie sheets.
10. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly brown.

butter, honey, eggs, dark rum, baking soda, milk, flour, cloves ground, allspice ground, nutmeg ground, walnuts, candied cherries, golden raisins, candied orange, candied pineapple

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/betties-fruitcake-cookies-32420 (may not work)