Description
Deliciously soft orange cookies topped with a sweet orange icing.
Ingredients
Scale
- ½ cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ⅓ cup almond milk (you can use regular milk as well)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice (or ½ teaspoon orange extract)
- 1 tablespoon orange zest (optional)
- 3 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 tablespoon almond milk (or milk)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, set aside.
- In another bowl, using a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in orange juice, milk, eggs, vanilla, almond milk and orange zest, optional and continue mixing until combined.
- Add 1/2 of the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix. Add rest of the flour mixture and again mix together until combined.
- Using a medium size cookie scoop, drop scooped cookies out on parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake about 8-10 minutes, or until cookies do not sink or imprint when lightly touched on top. Do not over-bake. Cookies should not be brown.
- Let cookies set for a couple of minutes on the baking sheets before transferring to a wire rack and then frost with the yummy orange icing!
- In a shallow bowl, mix powdered sugar and orange juice in a bowl. Add in milk and continue stirring until mixed well and it’s a nice thick consistency, yet pourable.
- Dip cooled cookies in icing and allow to set on a cookie rack.
- After icing has set, seal cookies to keep soft.
Notes
- Cookies can be stored in an airtight container to maintain softness.
- Best enjoyed fresh but can last for several days.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 5g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 22g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 40mg