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Orange Drop Cookies

Sweet and buttery cookies with a cake-like texture bursting with orange flavour. The cookies are coated with an orange-infused glaze or the alternative option of dusting with icing sugar. 

Servings 30 cookies

Ingredients

Cookies

  • ¾ cups granulated sugar
  • 1 orange, zested
  • ½ cup butter, softened to room temperature
  • 2 eggs, at room temperature
  • ½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice (from the zested orange plus 1 more)
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder

Glaze option

  • 2 cups icing sugar
  • 1 orange, zested, plus more zest from 1 more orange for garnish, if desired
  • ¼ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted

Alternative option to glaze

  • 1 cup icing sugar for dusting cookies

Instructions

  1. Prepare large baking sheets by lining with parchment paper. See Step 6 for preheating the oven while chilling the cookie batter.

  2. Add the granulated sugar into a small bowl. Add the orange zest to the sugar. Stir to combine to infuse the sugar with orange flavour.

  3. In a large bowl with a fork or spatula, cream together butter and orange infused sugar until smooth. Add eggs, and orange juice and mix to achieve a creamy liquid texture.

  4. In a medium bowl, combine flour and baking powder. 

  5. Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet batter and with a spatula, mix well to combine. The dough will be thick.

  6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Meanwhile, while the oven preheats, transfer the dough to refrigerator and chill for 15 - 20 minutes.

  7. Drop 2 tablespoons of chilled dough 2” apart on the prepared baking sheets. Do not flatten. Bake one sheet at a time for 10 - 12 minutes until just lightly golden. 

  8. Remove from oven and let cookies set on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. 

  9. For the glaze option, add the glaze ingredients to a medium bowl and mix well to incorporate. With a spreader knife, spread a dollop of glaze over each cooled cookie, allowing the glaze to drip down the sides of the cookies. If desired, immediately sprinkle cookies with additional orange zest. Allow glaze to set before serving.

  10. Alternatively, omit the glaze option and dust the cooled cookies with icing sugar.