Orange Cookies – Sugar Spun Run

These orange cookies are infused with contemporary orange juice and zest and topped with a easy frosting. They’re so smooth, tender, and brightly flavored (and there’s no chilling required!).

Why You’ll Love These Orange Cookies

• Vivid orange taste from actual oranges–no extracts, synthetic flavors, or gelatin right here. I make my strawberry cookies with actual strawberries too, in the event you’d prefer to strive a distinct however equally tasty fruity cookie.
• No chilling required! The dough doesn’t should be chilled, so you’ll be able to bake instantly. For those who’re impatient like I’m, it is a big plus 😁
• Lofthouse-style look and texture with their flat, spherical form and clean frosting. And don’t overlook the orange zest on prime!
• Talking of frosting, we’re utilizing a easy and attractive frosting right this moment. You can pipe it on prime if you wish to get a bit fancy, however I like to simply unfold it on with an offset spatula.

These orange cookies are a lot enjoyable! They’ve a brilliant and contemporary orange taste that particularly comes via within the frosting, so don’t skip it. I additionally add some cream cheese to the frosting as a result of it actually enhances the orange taste (similar to the frosting on my orange rolls!).

The cookies themselves are smooth and tender (once more, suppose lofthouse-esque) and should be flattened after baking. Just like my lemon meltaways, this helps create a dense but concurrently extra tender, melt-in-your-mouth middle and a flat floor for making use of the frosting. 

I can’t wait so that you can strive them, so let’s dive proper in!

What You Want

Let’s briefly go over a number of of our key elements earlier than we get began with our cookies.

• Oranges. Contemporary oranges are a should for these orange cookies! We’ll be utilizing the zest and juice of our oranges; I usually discover that I want three oranges for this recipe, however it’s possible you’ll want roughly relying on the dimensions of yours.
• Egg yolks. We’re utilizing solely the yolks of our eggs right here for tender and chewy outcomes. For those who’d like to make use of your egg whites as a substitute of throwing them away, you should utilize them for coconut macaroons, French macarons, or angel meals cake (simply to call a number of choices!).
• Butter. I take advantage of softened unsalted butter for each the cookies and the frosting, although you may use salted for every if that’s all you may have readily available. For those who do use salted for the cookies themselves, you’ll need to cut back the extra salt to ¼ teaspoon.
• Cream cheese. Follow full-fat, brick-style cream cheese. Make sure that to let the cream cheese soften beforehand so it may possibly simply mix with the butter to make the orange frosting.

SAM’S TIP: All the time zest your citrus earlier than juicing; it’s almost inconceivable to zest after (I all the time find yourself grating my knuckles this fashion… ouch!).

Keep in mind, that is simply an summary of the elements I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the publish!

Make Orange Cookies

Make the Cookie Dough

1. Cream the butter, orange zest, and sugar till mild and fluffy, then stir within the egg yolks and blend till mixed. Including the orange zest at this step helps to launch its oils, finally leading to a extra pronounced orange taste.
2. Slowly drizzle within the orange juice whereas stirring on low velocity, then combine till mixed.
3. Whisk the dry elements collectively in a separate bowl earlier than regularly including them to the moist elements.
4. Roll scoops of dough between your palms, then bake. Make sure that the dough balls are clean and even in order that they have a pleasant spherical form as soon as baked!

5. Flatten every cookie with the underside of a measuring cup or glass, then let the cookies cool utterly. I prefer to make the frosting whereas the cookies cool.

Frosting

1. Stir the cream cheese and butter collectively till clean, then regularly add the powdered sugar.
2. Add the orange zest and juice, then stir till the frosting is totally mixed.
3. Unfold the frosting on prime of the cooled cookies.

SAM’S TIP: I like so as to add extra orange zest on prime of my frosted orange cookies, however you may skip this and even change it with some enjoyable sprinkles as a substitute.

Continuously Requested Questions

That is my remaining cookie recipe of 2023–whew! I’ve shared SO many this 12 months and would like to know which one was your favourite 💕

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