Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies. Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies I always make these around Christmas. Grandma's War Time Orange Drop Cookies are easy to make and the texture is soft and chewy. So if you're expecting a crunchy cookie, this isn't it!
Cream the butter and sugar together.
Add orange juice, rind and eggs.
At least two generations of my family have enjoyed the recipe for these delicate orange-flavored cookies. —Sheri DeBolt, Huntington, Indiana.
You can have Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
- It's 1/2 cup of shortening.
- It's 1/2 cup of butter.
- Prepare 3 of eggs.
- You need 4 cups of AP flour.
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
- It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
- You need of Juice from 3 oranges (about 1 cup).
- You need 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar.
Line the cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a large bowl, beat the butter, orange extract, cream cheese and egg with an electric mixer until smooth. Make the Sweet Orange Glaze: Whisk together the powdered sugar, orange zest, and enough orange juice to achieve the desired consistency (less juice for a thicker glaze, more for a thinner one). Store at room temperature in an airtight container (divide layers with wax paper so the cookies.
Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies instructions
- Cream together sugar, shortening, butter (melted) and eggs in a large bowl..
- Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, buttermilk, and juice from 2 of the oranges. Sometimes I substitute orange juice instead of squeezed. Try 2/3 cup if you do. Mix well. The batter will be similar to heavy pancake batter..
- Pre-heat oven to 365°F. Spoon out a large spoon of batter onto an ungreased cookie sheet. You can also transfer the batter to a measuring cup and pour them onto the tray..
- Bake until edges are brown and centers spring back when touched..
- FROSTING: mix juice from 1 of the squeezed oranges (1/2 cup oj) with powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon melted butter. Then zest the entire skin of an orange into the mixture and mix..
- Frost while still warm..
The only thing I changed was using half lemon/half orange juice for the icing and maybe another half tablespoon of orange zest in the cookie dough- that definitely made them citrusy enough. The dough is relatively wet and similar to cake batter but the cookies remain very fluffy and cake-like. So in less then an hour you can fill your home with the most heavenly smell, and have warm orange cookies to snack on as a reward for all the hard work you've been doing lately. Soft orange cookies are one of Great-Grandma Berndt's heirloom recipes. They're so brag-worthy that I baked them as wedding favors when Husband and I tied the knot.
