Orange Sugar Cookies

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Orange Sugar Cookies

  • Serves
    approx. 30 cookies
Author Notes

This relies on an outdated recipe my Mother made when she lived in Boston after college. In accordance to her, it used to be one in all the first recipes she and her roomies learned the supreme choice to bake! At that level they flavored it with frozen oj listen, but since then Mother and I bear graduated to utilizing orange zest. I accumulate that the feel is somewhere between cakey and chewy, and I love the giant citrus kind that is no longer overly sweet. Since chilling the dough is a key segment of establishing this sugar cookie I accumulate essentially the most classic timeline for me is to make the dough for the duration of my daughter’s afternoon naptime, let the dough chill all afternoon, then bake the cookies after she has gone to bed. —Kelsey Banfield

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I love these vivid, aromatic orange cookies. The feel is cakey and relaxed (roughly love a appetizing dark and white cookie). They self-praise a bit bit to vary into good airy cookies that are unruffled ample to disintegrate in your mouth. They are a giant cookie for if you happen to correct need a bit something to accumulate you by the day. – Stephanie —The Editors

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Ingredients
  • For the Dough

  • 1/2 cup

    unsalted butter, room temperature


  • 1/2 cup

    sugar


  • 1/3 cup

    gentle brown sugar


  • 2

    eggs


  • 2 tablespoons

    orange zest


  • 2 cups

    flour


  • 1 1/2 teaspoons

    baking powder


  • 1 pinch

    Kosher salt

  • For the Orange Sugar

  • 1 tablespoon

    freshly grated orange zest


  • 1/3 cup

    sugar

Directions
  1. Cream the butter and sugars collectively in a mixer till gentle and fluffy. Add eggs one after the other and mix, then add the orange zest and mix till included.
  2. In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt. With the mixer on low, slowly add the flour combination bit by bit till it’s a long way correct included and dough comes collectively. Wrap dough in plastic and chill for at the least 6 hours. (Imprint: I’ve saved the dough in the fridge for as much as 18 hours before baking and the cookies bear turned out correct gorgeous!)
  3. Meanwhile, make the orange sugar: Region 1 T. zest and 1/3 c. sugar in the mini-chopper or cuisinart and give it a pair of pulses till the zest and sugar are finely ground and completely included. (Imprint: You might presumably well conception when this occurs due to the there is a burst of orange perfume in your kitchen because the oils are released!)
  4. As soon as the dough has chilled, preheat the oven to 375ºF. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or a silpat. Flour a work surface and a rolling pin, roll the dough to 1/4″ thickness. The usage of a 2″ spherical cookie cutter and place cookies onto baking sheets. (Imprint: I desire the cookie cutter choice to rolling the dough due to the I reflect this form yields a lighter cookie, while rolling dough produces a more challenging cookie.) Sprinkle every cookie with an even dusting of orange sugar.
  5. Bake for 9-11 minutes, or till middle of cookie is determined and the pinnacle is extremely evenly golden brown. Form no longer overbake, or chewiness aspect will proceed! Frosty on a wire rack and motivate. (Spend any leftover orange sugar for sweetening iced tea!)

House cook, meals blogger, cookbook creator, wine lover, avid traveler, and mother of two younger younger other folks. Check up on my books: The Naptime Chef: Becoming Nice Meals into Family Existence (2012), and The Family Calendar Cookbook: From Birthdays to Bake Gross sales, Correct Meals to Lift You Thru the Yr (2015), Running Press.

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