It is that time of year. The time of year when you deck the halls with ribbons, evergreens, and tinsel. The time of year when the kids squeal when they see Santa at the mall, and circle every toy in the catalog with a big red marker. It is the time of year when my kitchen reeks of the smell of baked goods rising in the oven.
I love to bake cookies. Dozens and dozens of cookies. Don’t worry I don’t eat them all myself, but I love to give them as gifts! Each “Snack”urday from now until Christmas will be a Cookie Recipe that you can share, or bake for your family and friends. To help you find new Christmas Cookie Recipes, we are having the A Few Short Cuts Cookie Swap again this year. If you have a Christmas Cookie Recipe you would like to share just head over and leave a link or leave the recipe in the comments. It is that simple. Hopefully we have many to look back on this year!
This is one of our family favorites that make a ton of cookies, but everyone is absolutely delicious!
| Orange Cookies |
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- 1 Cup Butter (softened)
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 oranges (grated and juiced)
- 6 cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tsp vinegar
- icing
- 16oz powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp butter
- juice and rind of 1 orange
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grate orange rinds to get zest. You will want the zest of all 3 oranges. After you have grated cut open and juice the oranges.
- Cream together butter and sugar; add eggs, juice and grated rind of oranges. Mix thoroughly.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, and baking powder.
- In a small bowl, mix together milk and vinegar or use buttermilk.
- Alternate adding milk and dry ingredients to creamed mixture, mixing well after each addition.
- Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto un-greased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 15 minute or until light brown. Ice cookies while warm
- Whisk together to make icing for orange cookies. Drizzle over cookies, or dip cookies into icing while still warm.
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Yay! I love to bake, too, and am looking forward to including cookies as gifts for friends and family – especially those who live far away! I’ve already got your Samaroons on my list to bake, and these orange cookies sound amazing! Maybe a weekend project for me
Do you think I could substitute orange extract for the fresh orange? If so, what quantity would you recommend?
Thanks.
Melanie,
I have no idea, I have only ever used fresh oranges for this one.
These were a hit at our house, although a bit too time consuming for my taste because I am all about keeping it fast and simple. Probably all the grating and juicing, but I’m sure that was a key to them being excellent because you can’t beat fresh, organic ingredients. God bless!
These look delicious! I’m going to try making them with a slight variation – I’m adding chocolate chips! I hope they turn out well.