Sharing an easy recipe for orange cookies with a light, orange flavored icing.
Don’t you love it when you try a new recipe and it tastes better than you imagined? The orange cookies with icing are super yummy. Pin these cookies to this list. They come out of the oven like little pillows on a cookie sheet. They are surprisingly filling so there is no instinct to grab three when one might do the trick.
I found this recipe from my blog friend, BonBon on her blog.
Orange cookies with icing are the perfect transitional cookie this time of year- when thoughts of baking creep back into my brain as the temperatures drop a smidge.
The icing is really easy and if you are a baker you likely have everything in the pantry. You do need an orange and orange juice for the icing. I used fresh-squeezed orange juice.
The ingredient list was simple which is always a good thing with my track record for messing up recipes.
The finished dough is kinda sticky and dense which gives you a clue to their puffy exterior when they come out of the oven.
ORANGE COOKIES WITH ICING

ORANGE COOKIES WITH ICING
Ingredients
- 1/2 CUP BUTTER SOFTENED
- 1 1/2 CUPS BROWN SUGAR
- 1 TSP VANILLA
- 1 TSP BAKING SODA
- 2 1/4 CUP FLOUR
- 1 TSP SALT
- 1 CUP SOUR CREAM
- 1 CUP CHOPPED WALNUTS OPTIONAL
Instructions
- 1. PREHEAT OVEN TO 350. LINE COOKIE SHEET WITH PARCHMENT PAPER
- 2.CREAM BUTTER, SUGAR, EGGS AND VANILLA
- 3. ALTERNATE DRY INGREDIENTS WITH SOUR CREAM. BLEND WELL4. STIR IN NUTS (OPTIONAL)
- 5. DROP FROM ROUNDED TEASPOON ONTO COOKIE SHEET
ORANGE ICING
- 2 CUPS POWDERED SUGAR
- 1 TSP VANILLA2 TBSP BUTTER, SOFTENED
- 1 TSP GRATED ORANGE RIND
- 1-3 TBSP ORANGE JUICE
- COMBINE SUGAR, VANILLA, BUTTER AND ORANGE RIND. BLEND IN ORANGE JUICE FOR ICING CONSISTENCY.
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Wow these sound amazing. The orange icing must be delicious!
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