Orange Drop Cookies

Orange Drop Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • ⅔ C. shortening
  • ¾ C. sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ C. undiluted frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
  • 2 tbsp. grated orange rind
  • 2 C. flour
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt.
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 400F.
  2. Mix shortening, sugar and egg thoroughly.
  3. Stir in orange juice and rind.
  4. Stir dry ingredients together and blend in.
  5. Drop rounded teaspoons of dough about 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
  6. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown.
  7. Frost with icing.
  8. to make the orange butter icing, combine 2½ tbsp. softened butter, 1½ C. powdered sugar and 2 tbsp. orange juice.

 

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