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Yes, it's Christmastime, that greedy time of year, and along with sugar plum fairies I dream of cookies. Flat ones, frosted ones, puffy ones, crisp ones, chewy ones. I want them all!
Starving readers already know I love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and lemon bars. From biscotti to polvorones I bake and devour them all. So I wanted to share some of my favorites in a few of my upcoming posts.
Here's one, again drawn from not only a woman's magazine, but an ad in the mag. Something about Land O' Lakes' wholesome maiden assured me that I would love these Orange Butter Cookies. The first time I baked and frosted them, I ran over to my neighbor and shared them with her, or else I was going to eat them all!
Beat 1/2 cup sugar into 2 soft sticks of unsalted butter (1 cup). Grate and add 1 tsp orange peel, 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla. Gradually mix in 3 cups of flour. Chill the dough. Roll dough to 1/8 ". Cut out (I like circles, around 1 1/2 inches). Bake at 350 degrees until pale gold, with lightly browned edges.
While cookies bake, mix 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar with 3 tbls orange juice and 1 tsp orange peel. Blend until smooth. Brush glaze over just baked cookies.
Five dozen helpings of yum.
I do have to say, in all humility, that I make excellent sugar cookies. I don't know...maybe the elves will bring you some.
ReplyDeleteCongressman Adam Schiff's field representative, Teresa Lamb Simpson, dropped off her famous Mexican wedding cookies today that she makes at Christmastime every year. Oh man, they're so yummy!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to a cookie exchange party on Sunday but haven't decided yet what to bake. Looking through all the cookbooks is half the fun!
Thank heaven for good neighbors. We've been sharing fruit on the block this year. I need to make friends with someone nearby who bakes.
ReplyDeleteP:Or host a cookie exchange--
ReplyDeletePio: just made some today, too!
M: I am greedy. Hmmm, what do I need to do? How's being naughty? Does that rate sugar cookies?
I'm gonna get a blueberry muffin now to keep me company while I read all this sweet stuff.
ReplyDeleteDear Desiree, I cooked last week cookies! They were my first cookies (well I often did with my girlfriends, but now, alone...:( ) and I have to say they are so heavy that you can kill someone with them :(
ReplyDeleteI have not yet baked a thing. Gotta' get busy!
ReplyDeleteItalo you crack me up.
ReplyDeleteIn so many ways, it's a good thing I can't bake a cookie.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty cookie obsessed. I'm baking with my mom and sister on Tuesday and haven't even narrowed down what we're going to make. This is the time of year that I buy way too expensive magazines on newsstands if the cookie pictures are amazing (skip the Sunset - it was nothing earthshattering but the cover was so pretty).
ReplyDeleteB:Let us know what you bake!
ReplyDeleteI: I envy people who can be witty in a foreign tongue!
Just being you rates sugar cookies.
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