Orange Holiday Sugar Cookies
Orange Holiday Sugar Cookies
Back when oranges weren't readily available at grocery stores, they were once a treat to receive on Christmas. This was especially true during the Great Depression, when gifts might have been too expensive for families. These cookies offer a hint of the sweet citrus. Courtesy of McCormick
Prep Time
20
minutes
Cook Time
10
minutes
Servings
24
Total time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 1/3 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon mccormick® pure orange extract
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 3 to 4 teaspoon milk
- 1/2 teaspoon mccormick® all natural pure vanilla extract
- 3 to 4 drops mccormick® assorted food color & egg dye
Directions
- Mix flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl.
- Set aside.
- Beat granulated sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Add egg and orange extract; mix well.
- Gradually stir in flour mixture on low speed until well mixed.
- Refrigerate 2 hours or overnight until firm.
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness.
- Cut into shapes with cookie cutters.
- Place on greased baking sheets.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Cool on baking sheets 1 minute.
- Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
- For the icing, mix all ingredients except food colors.
- (Stir in additional milk as needed to thin icing or more confectioners' sugar to thicken, if needed.)
- Place small amount of icing into small shallow bowls, using one bowl for each color desired.
- Stir drops of food color into icing until desired shade is reached.
- To ice cookies, hold cookie by its edge and dip top of cookie into icing.
- (Or spoon the icing onto cookie using a teaspoon.)
- Place iced cookies on wire rack set over foil-covered baking sheet to dry.
- (The foil-covered baking sheet will catch drips.)
- To add decorative details to cookies, spoon tinted icing into resealable plastic bag.
- Snip off a tiny piece of the corner.
- Squeeze icing through hole in plastic bag to decorate cookies.
- If desired, colored sugar may be sprinkled onto freshly iced cookies.