These panettone and mixed fruit cookies have been waiting for the recipe for a while. I wonder if today is the day I manage to finish writing it!
Guys, how fast time flies! I barely had time to tell myself ‘in a few days I’ll write the recipe’ and it’s already February! and even a week into it!

At this point, the question is inevitable: who among you still has a panettone lying around? 😅

Know that I have two.
One of which is there waiting to be used to make a recipe suggested by my sister-in-law (as you know, she’s a guarantee, so it’s a must-make recipe!).

But first, I absolutely have to tell you about these panettone cookies that have chronological priority, and the draft of the recipe is half-written here, corrected, and tweaked, and… let’s finish this recipe!, which is a super-recycling recipe, as it was born solely to use up half a panettone. And also an overripe banana and pear, and two oranges that weren’t in their prime, one a bit shriveled and one half-eaten. Because here, when we recycle, we do it properly!

I wanted to use the half panettone to make a filled dessert, like a tiramisu or zuccotto, or similar, and I was so sure of myself and what I wanted to do that I even bought mascarpone specifically.
But no way.
Nothing at my house should ever be decided in advance because you can be sure that plans will inevitably fall apart. During those festive and post-festive days, the now well-known chaotic days of our not-very-festive-very-busy-and-with-office-renovations holidays, which made me completely forget for days and days about the half panettone inside the kitchen cabinet.

When I finally remembered it and took it out of the cupboard, it was dry.

No filled dessert! Trying to cut slices only resulted in crumbs with each knife stroke.
And so I had to change course, that is, recipe.

Then the fruit. Due to the aforementioned chaotic period, the Christmas diet almost devoid of fruits and vegetables (yes, that’s how it went!), as well as multiple lunches at grandma’s with cappelletti, ravioli, and cotechini, and with the diet gone awry… it happened that I found myself with a quantity of uneaten fruit at home, which was at risk of an ignominious end.
And I had to ask myself the fateful question: dry panettone + overripe fruit = what do I do with it?

At first, I thought of muffins. But then I played the card of rustic cookies, that is, ugly but good cookies, or rather: those cookies dropped with a spoon onto the baking tray of which this blog already boasts other versions.

And oh, it always works!! 😄

Here they are, the other versions of my spoon cookies: