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Grandma's Orange Cookies

Soft and pillowy orange cookies are topped with a delicious and buttery orange frosting.

Course Dessert
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 4 dozen

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, at room temperature
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs, slightly beaten
  • rind of 1 large orange, finely grated
  • 1/2 cup orange juice
  • 1 cup milk
  • 4 cups + 2-3 tbsp flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp baking powder

Icing:

  • juice and rind of 1 large orange rind should be finely grated
  • 1/2 box powdered sugar (about 8 oz) sifted
  • 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature

Instructions

Cookies:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

  2. Cream butter and sugar. Then add eggs, orange juice, and orange rind, and beat until well-combined.

  3. In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking powder). Add dry ingredients to butter mixture (about 1 cup at a time), alternating with milk. Be sure to start and end with the dry ingredients.

  4. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper and scoop cookies onto sheet with a standard cookie scooper. (Dough will seem a bit thin and is more like the consistency of thick cake batter.) Bake for 13-15 minutes, until center looks cooked through (the edges may not be brown). Cookies will continue cooking on pan slightly once removed from oven. Let cookies cool completely on baking sheets.

Icing:

  1. Beat together all icing ingredients until well combined and light in color. Add to cookies once they've cooled.