Orange Drop Cookies
42
Servings
Servings
45m PT45M
Prep Time
Prep Time
10m PT10M
Cook Time
Cook Time
55m
Ready In
Ready In
Recipe: #28508
October 28, 2017
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Dropped, Fruit, Orange, Cooking For A Crowd, Kid Pleaser, Quick Meals, Christmas, Entertaining, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Kosher Dairy more
"These have always been popular. Butter cream frosting can be substituted for the orange butter icing."
Original recipe yields 42 servings
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (25.9 g)
- Calories 99
- Total Fat - 3.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.4 g
- Cholesterol - 14.7 mg
- Sodium - 51.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 15.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.2 g
- Sugars - 11 g
- Protein - 0.9 g
- Calcium - 9.3 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step 1
Mix butter, sugar, and egg thoroughly. Stir in orange juice and rind.
Step 2
Add baking powder, soda and salt and stir. Blend in flour.
Step 3
Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet(s).
Step 4
Bake 8-10 minutes or until delicately browned on edges in preheated 400' oven.
Step 5
Cool cookies and frost:
TO MAKE THE ICING
Step 6
Blend butter and sugar, then stir in orange juice and rind till smooth. Apply to cookies with spatula.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.