hermit cookies

Truly the best and most soft Hermit cookies recipe. These were Grandma&#x27;s most favourite cookies - a New England classic with warm spices, nuts and dried fruit. A true old fashioned classic.

Easy Old Fashioned Hermit Cookies

butter (room temperature)

brown sugar (packed)

eggs

tsp vanilla extract

all purpose flour

tsp baking soda

tsp salt

cinnamon

allspice

nutmeg

raisins

dates

walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 F.

In a standing mixer on medium speed, cream together butter and brown sugar. Add eggs and beat until mixture is pale and thick - about 2 minutes. Beat in vanilla.

Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. Incorporate raisins, dates and nuts (depending on your mixer, you may have to do this part by hand with a wooden spoon).

Drop cookies by tablespoonfuls onto a well-greased or parchment-lined baking sheet, about 2 inches apart (you will have to do batches). Bake 10-12 minutes, until edges are set but centres still appear moist. Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

These were excellent!  Instead of 1 cup raisins, I used 1/3 cup raisins, 1/3 cup craisins, 1/3 cup dried blueberries.  I also didn't have any allspice, so I subbed with cardamon.  Due to allergies we did not use nuts. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks Jennifer, I tried the recipe and thought it was a great base recipe! My Mom was an excellent baker who baked for several stores. Not because she needed to but because she was good at it and loved it. Everything she baked was sold out the day she brought them and on back order! Sadly all her recipes were lost when she passed. 
Many years later I still miss her recipes. Your recipe reminded me of her.. After sample testing yours I added oats for chewiness, more walnuts  and doubled the spices. I think it enhanced an already good recipe? Next time I will add molasses and my guess is that we’ll be heading into cookie nirvana?

My brother used to make hermit cookies that were soooo good but 30ish yrs later he can't find the recipe when i asked him for it. Found this one so thought I'd give it a shot. Omg sooo good. I don't remember what his tasted like only that i loved them so have no comparison. Though I doubled the spices and added 1/4tsp of cloves (not sure if that little added anything to the cookies though) and instead of 1c raisins i did 1.5c dried cherries (what my brother used to use). Thank you so much for this recipe. My man and I can't stop eating them!!

my Mom made these (her mother did as well).  I grew up in the early 1940's.  One of my favorite things about Christmas. This recipe Mom used was the same as my grandmother did in the 1930;s or earlier. YUmmy

These kcookies are identical to my moms recipe, there are great tasting  cookies,getting ready to make more o f them

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Truly the best Hermit cookie recipe there is. These were Grandma's most favourite cookies - a New England classic with warm spices, nuts and dried fruit.

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