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Holiday Sugar Plums

Be careful with this recipe. It’s easy to get “Sugar Plums dancing in your head”!

The history on this recipe is, back in the days when the ladies of the house would preserve the fruits and nuts from the summer season.  In the Christmas season they would make desserts with what they had preserved.  Now the dancing part was because they didn’t get much sugar outside of the holiday and special events. They were dreaming about the treats that were tradition on Christmas day.

Ingredients

2 tbs organic cane sugar

¼ tsp ground cardamom

½ tsp cinnamon

¼ cup organic unsweetened coconut

½ cup pecans

¼ cup pistachios

1 cup pitted unsulferated dates

½ cup dried unsulferated apricots

½ cup dried unsulferated figs

¼ cup golden unsulferated raisins

¼ cup unsulferated dried cherries or cranberries

2 tbsp. orange liqueur or rum

Directions

1                    In a wide, shallow bowel combine sugar, cardamom, cinnamon, coconut.  Mix well and set aside

2                    In a food processor pulse pecans until roughly chopped. Add the pistachios and pulse again until both nuts are finely chopped. 

3                    Add dates, apricots, figs, raisins and cherries or cranberries are evenly chopped and they begin to clump.

4                     Return nuts to processor and add liqueur or rum. Pulse until just mixed.  If mixture does not stick together, add more liqueur or rum.

5                    A teaspoon at a time, roll mixture into balls, then roll each ball in the dry sugar mixture until well coated.

Sugar Plums can be refrigerated in a sealed container for up to one month. If you layer the sugar plums place a sheet of waxed paper between each layer.

Makes aprox. 30 sugar plums

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