Orange Cardamom Butter Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Beat butter in a medium bowl until light and fluffy. add cardamom, soda, and pinch of salt and mix well.
• 2. gradually add the vanilla, orange rind and brown sugar. beat until smooth
• 3. Add egg and beat until well combined. fold in combined sifted flour and cream of tartar. Mix to form a soft dough
• 4. Roll mixture into a walnut sized balls and place on a greased cookie sheet, lightly flatten each ball
• 5. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-14 minutes cool on a wire rack
• 6. You can leave these plain or dust with powdered sugar. I frosted mine with 1 cup of powdered sugar that I mixed 1 tablespoon of Chai flavored sugar and just enough cream to make icing consistency.

Steps:

• Melt or cream together butter, sugar, yolk, and cardamon.
• Stir in cream.
• Add orange zest. Then flour.
• 350-degrees F oven.
• Roll dough into a log about 1 - 1 1/4" in diameter.
• slice 1/4" to 1/2" thick.
• (sugar coated log on cutting board).
• 10-20 min? watch until done browned bottom just done on top.

Steps:

• Make dough:
• Whisk together flour, zest, cardamom, and salt.
• Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in yolk and cream. At low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches just until a dough forms. Quarter dough and form each piece into a 6-inch disk, then chill, wrapped separately in plastic wrap, until firm, 2 to 3 hours.
• Cut and bake cookies:
• Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
• Roll out 1 piece of dough between sheets of parchment paper into an 11-inch round (1/8 inch thick). Slide dough in parchment onto a tray and chill until firm, about 15 minutes.
• Cut out as many cookies as possible with cookie cutter (chill dough again if necessary), reserving and chilling scraps. Transfer cookies to a parchment-lined large baking sheet, arranging them 1 inch apart.
• Bake until edges are golden-brown, 9 to 12 minutes. Cool on baking sheet 5 minutes, then slide cookies, still on parchment, onto a rack to cool completely.
• Make more cookies with remaining dough and scraps (reroll only once) on cooled freshly lined baking sheets.
• If icing cookies and coloring icing, transfer small batches to small bowls, 1 for each color, and tint with food coloring. Spoon each color of icing into separate sealable bags, pressing out excess air, and snip an 1/8-inch opening in 1 bottom corner of each bag. Pipe icing onto a plate to test consistency. If too thick, thin a small batch with a few drops of orange juice.
• Decoratively pipe icing onto cookies, then sprinkle with decorative sugar (if using) and let dry completely, about 1 hour (depending on humidity).

Steps:

• whisk together dry ingredients, except sugar in a bowl.
• In a large bowl, beat together sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla, until fluffy.
• Reduce speed and beat in flour mixture.
• Roll into two 12-inch logs.
• Wrap in plastic and refrigerate 1 hour.
• preheat oven to 350.
• Slice into 1/4-inch slices and bake on ungreased cookie sheets 10-12 minutes.
• Cool on sheets 3 minutes, then move to racks.

Steps:

• Position two oven racks in top and bottom third of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• In a bowl, whisk flours, baking soda and salt together. In a mixer, cream together the sugar, butter and orange zest at medium speed until light and smooth, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of bowl frequently. Add egg and mix. Add one egg yolk and mix. Add remaining egg yolk and mix. Stir in dry ingredients just until combined.
• Scoop tablespoons of dough onto parchment, leaving more than 1 inch between cookies. Press each one down lightly with 2 fingers to flatten to a thickness of 1/2 inch. Leave any ridges and valleys on top of cookie intact, but smooth the edges.
• Bake about 15 minutes, rotating cookie sheets halfway through. Cookies should be pale but baked all the way through. Cool on sheets 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack and cool before storing in airtight containers up to 1 week.
• When ready to serve, make icing: Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Peel orange, being careful to remove only outer orange zest, and cut into thin strips. Blanch in boiling water 1 minute; drain. Sift confectioners' sugar into a bowl. Whisk in 2 tablespoons milk. Whisk in more milk if needed to make mixture thin enough to spread. Add extract, salt and zest, and whisk to combine.
• Place cookies on a rack and drizzle icing over each one (make sure there is some orange zest in each spoonful). Icing will settle into cookie crevices; let harden.