Orange Cookies
Easy orange sugar cookies. These simple slice and bake orange cookies are packed full of fresh orange. Chill and slice for perfect easy refrigerator cookies!
Ingredients
- 2¾ cup all purpose flour or plain flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar or caster sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar or muscovado, firmly packed
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoon orange juice freshly squeezed
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- ½ teaspoon orange blossom water (see note)
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter, sugars and egg until well combined.
- Add the orange juice, zest and orange blossom water, beating until incorporated.
- Sift the dry ingredients (the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt), into the mixture and stir well to combine. Knead into a a dough. (see note)
- Once the dough has come together, divide in half and shape each half into a log, roughly 2"-2.5" in diameter. Wrap these logs of dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least 4 hours (or up to 3 days).
- When ready to bake, preheat an oven to 350°F (175C/155C Fan) and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Remove a dough log from the refrigerator and cut about ¼" thick slices. These rounds will be your cookies - place spaced on your cookie sheet and bake for about 12 minutes, until starting to go golden at the edges. (see note)
Notes
If you can't find orange blossom water, don't worry! You can substitute with lemon extract, which will help to enhance the citrus flavours.
Once you've stirred the dry ingredients into the sugar mixture with a spatula, the dough will start to come together. You will find it easier to knead this together with your hands, working it together until just combined.
Top tips for slicing round cookies:
- Rotate the log as you're cutting - this will help more evenly distribute the pressure. When slicing cookies, the pressure of the knife will start to cause the cookie log to go flat against the countertop. Rotating helps to avoid this.
- Keep any unused dough in the refrigerator - these cookies will make a few batches, so while they bake, keep any dough that is waiting to be cut in the refrigerator to keep it chilled. This will help it to slice more easily and stay rounded.
Nutrition
Calories: 105kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 46mgPotassium: 20mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 167IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 8mgIron: 0.5mg
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