Orange cookies are festive enough for a Christmas present or as a unique Christmas cookie for your dessert plate. They are simply prepared and once you try these treats, they will no longer be able to put them down. Decide for freshly squeezed orange juice and freshly grated orange peel to fully bring your cookies' aroma into its own.
Bake orange cookies: Delicious recipes for homemade delicacies
The orange cookies are perfect for lightening their day with sunny citrusaromas.Light and refreshing: You will want to eat one biscuit after another.
Christmas orange cookies
In just 20 minutes, these are deliciously soft orange-Christmas cookies finished. Try the recipe!
Preparation:10 minutes
Baking time:10 minutes
Portions:10 cookies
Ingredients:
- 200 g of sugar
- 1/2 TL Orangenextrakt
- 110 g butter, soft
- 200 g white flour
- 1/2 TL cinnamon, ground
- 1 no
- 1/2 baking powder
- 1/2 TL Natron
- 150 g candied orange peel
Preparation:
- Heat the oven to 190 ° C and display 2 large baking sheets with baking paper.
- Stir the butter and sugar frothy. Add the egg, the orange extract and the cinnamon and mix everything well.
- Add the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda and stir well.
- Add the candied orange peels and puree until they are evenly distributed.
- Share the dough into 8-10 balls and place it on a baking sheet, with a distance of approx. 8 cm between the balls.
- Bake the orange cookies in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Take them out of the oven and let them cool before placing the cookies on a grid to completely cool.
Cranbery-orange cookies with glaze
The juice and the shell of a fresh orange give this buttery, grumpy cookies a happy aroma, which is supplemented by the sweet and sour dried cranberrys.
Preparation:3 hours and 30 minutes (including cooling of the dough)
Baking time:14 minutes
Portions:24 cookies
Ingredients for the dough:
- 170 g butter, soft
- 130 g of sugar
- 1 big egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 260 g Allzweckmehl
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 30 ml orange juice
- 1 teaspoon orange peel, grated
- 100 g of dried cranberrys, finely chopped
- Coarse sugar to roll
Ingredients for the twitching:
- 120 g powdered sugar, sifted
- 30 ml orange juice
Preparation:
- Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl with a mixer for about 2 minutes. Stir the egg and the vanilla extract at high speed. Add the flour and salt and continue on a low level until everything is well mixed. Finally, stir the orange juice, the orange peel and the dried cranberry.
- Roll out the dough on a floured work surface and halve it with floured hands. Form every half into an 18-20 cm long strand with a diameter of about 6 cm. Wrap the dough pieces firmly in cling film and put them in the fridge for at least 3 hours and up to 5 days. The cooling is mandatory for this cookie dough.
- Heat the oven to 180 ° C. Place 2 large baking sheets with baking paper.
- Put so much rough sugar on a large plate that it is covered. Roll the dough halves in the sugar.
- Cut each dough roll into 12 the same thickness and place them on the prepared baking sheets with a distance of about 5 cm.
- Bake the cookies for 13 to 16 minutes until they are slightly browned on the edges. Take them out of the oven and let them cool down for 5 minutes before they let them cool completely on a grid.
- Whisk the powdered sugar and the orange juice. Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cookies. As long as the icing is still damp, you can still decorate the cookies with orange zest. The glaze is firm after 30 to 60 minutes so that you can easily store the cookies.
Chocolate Christmas cookies with orange taste
Some flavor combinations go together very well, and chocolateand are orangesSince no exception! These chocolate orange cookies are light and airy and full of citrus aroma.
Preparation:15 minutes
Baking time:12 minutes
Portions:36 cookies
Ingredients:
- 220 g butter, soft
- 100 g of sugar
- 1 teaspoon orange juice
- 1 tablespoon of orange peel, grated
- 240 g Allzweckmehl
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 140 g dark chocolate, finely chopped
- 110 g candied orange peel
Preparation:
- Heat the oven to 160 ° C. Prepare a baking sheet by laying it out with baking paper.
- Beat the butter and sugar foamy in a large bowl.
- Add the orange juice and the orange peel and stir into the butter mixture.
- Add the flour and salt. Stir until everything has just been incorporated.
- Add the chocolate and candied orange peels and mix everything well.
- Divide the cookie dough into three equally large portions. Set 2 portions aside and keep them covered so that you do not dry out.
- Form the biscuit dough slightly into a ball and place it between two leaves baking paper. Roll the dough with a rolling pin on a thickness of about 1 cm.
- Cut the rolled -out dough into round pieces with a cutting mold and place it on the baking sheet with a distance of 5 cm. Stop the rest of the dough and roll it again until it is used up. Repeat the process with the other dough portions.
- Bake the cookies for 13 minutes. Take them out of the oven and let them cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes. Place the cookies on a wire grille for completely cooling.
