Orange Butter Cookies

By jenncrose

Traditional Butter Cookies with the Essence of Orange. The essence of orange perks up the traditional butter cookie. They're gorgeous and have a delicate crispiness to them

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) chilled, unsalted Butter or Margarine, cut into pieces
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 1 Tbls. frozen Orange Juice concentrate, thawed (may substitute Orange Flower Water)
• 2 tsp. orange zest
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 cups Self-Rising Flour
• Almonds (sliced or slivers), or can substitute Walnuts, Pistachios or nut of choice, enough for 1 on top of each cookie

Details

Servings 18
Adapted from littlefiggy.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325F. for non-stick you do not need to grease cookie sheet, for any other type of cookie sheet, lightly grease.
*In large bowl, using a hand blender, mixer or food processor - blend butter until smooth.
*Add sugar and continue to mix until fluffy.
*Mix in the Orange Juice Concentrate, orange zest and vanilla.
*Add in flour a little at a time, just until the dough starts to come together.
*With cold and lightly damp hands, start to form 1 Tbls of dough into a ball. Place on cookie sheet and flatten into about 2 inch rounds.
*With choice of nut, simply press onto dough.
*Continue making rest of cookies in this manner.
*Place in oven, and bake until cookies just start to color, about 12 - 15 minutes.
*Transfer cookies to cooling rack and cool.
*Store in an airtight container. Can be made up to 2 days in advance.