Orange Gingerbread Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 ¼ cup flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup salted butter
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup molasses
- 1 egg
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- zest of 1 orange
- 1 ¼ tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 ¼ ground ginger
- ¾ teaspoon clove
- ¾ teaspoon nutmeg
Icing
- 2 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 2-3 tablespoon Milk
- ¼ teaspoon Vanilla
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine the softened butter, brown sugar, and molasses, then add the egg, vanilla and orange zest.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, clove, and nutmeg.
- Slowly add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients.
- Form your ball of dough, place in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Roll out your dough to about ¾ inch thick and use your desired cookie cutters to cut out your cookies. Re-knead the scraps, roll out again and cut out a few more cookies.
- Place these cookies on a cookie sheet and place them in the freezer for 15 minutes. Then Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Put cookies straight from the freezer to the oven and bake for 7 minutes.
- Now make the icing. Mix together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla.
- After the cookies have cooled. Place icing in piping bag and decorate!
- Enjoy!
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