Does anyone find it ironic that I'm putting a recipe for cookies on a site called Balancing the Scales? As in...MAAAAYBE THAT'S WHY I CAN'T?!
Ahem.
Anyway. It's the holidays.
Grandma's Orange Cookies (it makes a lot of cookies)
Ingredients:
1C Butter
2C Sugar
2 Eggs
4 1/2 C flour
2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Baking powder
1C Buttermilk (Or you can make your own like I did*)
Rind & Juice of one orange
(I added a little pinch of salt)
Instructions:
Cream sugar & butter til fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add orange juice & rind. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with milk. Drop on greased cookie sheet & bake at 350 for 8 min.
(I found 8 min in my oven was not enough time. 9-10 minutes did it. You don't want them overdone, though, or they dry out. These cookies come out cake-like and not too sweet. Which makes a nice balance with the sweet frosting.)
Orange Frosting
Ingredients:
1/4 C Butter
1 lb Powdered sugar
Juice & rind of one orange
Instructions:
Mix together & frost cookies.
(Yes. That's for real what the recipe said. I was all, 'WHAT?! WHAT KIND OF INSTRUCTION IS THAAAT?!' But I just ran the mixer over the butter for a little bit, heaped the sugar on top and added the rind/juice and mixed it. Turned out great.)
*I made the buttermilk (which is called sour milk, but I think that's gross, so I just say I made my own buttermilk) by putting 1 TBSP of white vinegar in a measuring cup and then putting milk up to the 1C mark. I let it sit for 5-10 minutes or so and used it. I couldn't tell the difference in the taste of the cookies. They taste just like I remember. So, maybe my mom and gramma were ALSO [too lazy] tied to the house with napping kids and so were unable to go to the store to get buttermilk.
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