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Iced Sweet Orange Cookies Recipe

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Cookies
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 1/2 cups butter softened
2 1/4 cups sugar
4 eggs well beaten
2 teaspoons orange zest
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon orange flavored emulsion
5 1/4 cups all purpose flour sifted
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Stir in well-beaten eggs and beat until thick. Add orange zest, vanilla, and orange flavored emulsion. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add dry ingredients, one cup at a time, to the butter and egg mixture. Divide into 3 or 4 parts, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill thoroughly (several hours or overnight).

Next day, preheat oven to 375°F. Roll out dough to ¼ inch on a floured surface and use a round cookie cutter to cut circles. If baking in a warm climate, keep each piece of dough in the refrigerator until you are ready to work with it. Place cut cookies on cookie sheet with a ½-inch margin between cookies to allow for any spreading. (You can prevent cookie spread by chilling the entire baking sheet before baking.)

Bake until just barely brown around the edges, approximately 8 to 12 minutes, depending on your oven and baking sheet. Check periodically to prevent over-baking. These are delicious topped with orange icing!
 

Orange Icing
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup milk or cream
1/8 teaspoon orange flavored emulsion
1 tablespoon orange zest
pinch salt
Directions:
Directions:
In a medium bowl, mix ingredients well. Ice cookies while they are still warm. Place on rack to continue cooling.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
2 dozen
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
15 minutes
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
from the kitchen of:
Alice & Jeanne
This is the same basic sugar dough recipe as used in the lemon cookies, but orange emulsion is substituted for the lemon emulsion, and orange zest is substituted for lemon zest.

 

 

 

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