Best Soft Orange Cookies Recipes

SOFT ORANGE MARMALADE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine sour cream and orange marmalade; set aside. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream mixture and mix well., Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a small bowl, combine butter and marmalade. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until blended. Frost cookies.

SOFT ORANGE-CLOVE GINGERBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix all dry ingredients together and cut in the butter.
• Add the wet ingredients. Knead a few seconds.
• Roll out on a lightly floured surface pretty thick, about 1/4 inch. Cut out cookies and bake at 350 degrees F for 12-14 minutes.
• *NOTE: Cookies should be baked but still soft and chewy, not crisp. Serving size is approximate.

SOFT AND CHEWY VANILLA-ORANGE CRANBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425°F. Lightly grease two baking sheets, or line them with parchment.
• In a large bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, orange peel, vanilla, baking powder, and salt.
• Beat in the egg. The mixture may look slightly curdled; that's OK.
• Add the flour and dried cranberries (or cranberries and nuts), stirring until well combined.
• Drop the dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the baking sheets, leaving about 1 1/2" between them. A level teaspoon cookie scoop works very well here; dough balls will be about 1 1/4" in diameter. Using the flat bottom of a glass dipped in sugar, flatten the cookies slightly, to a scant 1/2" thick.
• Bake the cookies for 6 to 7 minutes, until they're barely set, and a light golden brown around the edges. Don't over-bake; if you do, the cookies will be hard, not soft and chewy. Gently lift one of the cookies and look at the bottom; if you've used parchment, it shouldn't be brown. If you're baking on a dark cookie sheet without parchment, it should be light (not dark) brown.
• Remove the cookies from the oven, and cool them right on the pan. If you need a pan to bake the remainder of the cookies, give the cookies about 5 minutes to set before transferring them to a rack to cool completely.Yield: about 4 dozen cookies.

"SOFT" ORANGE COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Mix all the glaze ingredients well and set aside.
• 2. Mix shortening, sugar, and egg well and then add the dry ingredients and mix well.
• 3. Drop by tsp. onto oookie sheets and bake 8-10 minutes till LIGHT brown.
• 4. Cool cookies and then glaze.