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COK-Iced Orange or Pear cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
COOKIE DOUGH:

11 Tbsp (5½ ounces) unsalted butter
3/4 cup (5¼ ounces) granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 large egg
1/2 cup (4 ounces) freshly squeezed orange juice (grate zest before juicing)
2 Tbsp grated orange zest (the rind of 1 large or 2 small oranges)
2 cups (8 ounces) whole wheat flour

ICING:

2 cups (8 ounces) powdered sugar
2 Tbsp (1 ounce) unsalted butter, softened
1 Tbsp grated orange zest (the rind of 1 small orange)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
2 Tbsp (1 ounce) freshly squeezed orange juice
Directions:
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets or line with parchment paper.

2. Prepare dough: Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Beat in egg, then orange juice and orange zest, scraping the bowl. The mixture will look curdled; that’s OK! Add the flour, beating until smooth. Drop dough by Tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets.

3. Bake the cookies: Bake cookies, reversing pans midway through (top to bottom, bottom to top), until they’re just barely beginning to brown around the edges, 10 minutes. Remove cookies from oven and let them cool on the pans for 10 minutes before transferring them to a rack to cool.

4. Prepare the icing: Beat the sugar, butter, orange zest, vanilla and salt in a medium bowl until well combined. Beat in orange juice until the mixture is spreadable. Spread icing on the cookies when they’re completely cool, using a generous 1 tsp. icing for each.

Servings: 30
Yield: 30 cookies

Nutritional Information per cookie: calories 97, fat 5.32g (sat fat 3.24g), cholesterol 20.28mg, sodium 81.05mg, carbohydrates 11.73g, fiber 1.04g, protein 1.41g
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
These were delicious cookies. The kids loved them and I felt better giving them to them than a traditional cookie. I made these cookies with pears instead. I had some soft pears, so I peeled them and cooked them until mushy texture. I added a little water to the pears as I cooked them. I took out all orange ingredients and substituted in pears in the same amount and no zest. I added additional pears in replacement of the zest too.
I found it helpful to refrigerate the mixture x 1 hour before placing them in the oven, because it was a little runny and my first cookies spread a lot. I also made 44 cookies with this recipe instead of 30, so the nutritional content could be adjusted as such.
I also used salted butter so I cut the amount of salt in the recipe in 1/2 to make up for it.

 

 

 

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