Fruitcake cookies

Here's a favorite recipe of mine that you can make this Labor Day weekend. The recipe is fruitcake cookies and they're perfect for cookouts with the family and friends. Pun intended.

And while everyone makes fun of that terrible holiday gift, these are actually really good. And simple to make, which makes them really, really good.

Ingredients:
1 box of Pillsbury yellow cake mix with pudding
1/2 to 1 cup of oatmeal
1/2 cup of melted butter
2 eggs slightly beaten
1/4 cup of water
1 tsp of vanilla
1 cup of nuts - lots and lots of nuts. I use pecans & walnuts. Nuts go well with fruitcakes.
2 bags of dried mixed fruit - you'll find this in your grocery store at the same place you get the raisins and trail mix.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients & blend well.
Drop rounded dough onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 10 - 12 minutes (they should just be getting a little brown on the tops)
Cool a least 1 minute before removing from the cookie sheet.
Then sprinkle with powdered sugar, the most important part.

Serve to friends and family and tell each one you were thinking of them while baking the cookies.