- very well suited to while away cold winter evenings. These easy-to-prepare homemade spiced cookies with orange zest, just like the many-loved ones, are very festive and go perfectly with the New Year and Christmas theme. Thanks to the wonderful combination of orange and cinnamon, the cookies have a very pleasant taste and great aroma, they are very soft, crumbly inside, and have a spicy cinnamon crust on the outside. I think it could also be a great addition to New Year's and Christmas gifts for your friends and family. Well, detailed as always step by step recipe with photos will help you not to make a mistake anywhere and prepare the most delicious aromatic orange cinnamon cookies.
The total preparation time is approximately 2 hours, of which 1 hour the dough lies in the refrigerator.
Ingredients
For cookies
- flour 200 g
- butter 100 g
- egg 1 PC.
- sugar 100 g
- zest 1 orange
- baking powder 5 g
- salt 1 pinch
For sprinkling
- sugar 30 g
- cinnamon 1/2 tbsp. spoons
From the specified amount of ingredients, 450g of cookies are obtained, about 30 pieces. I think this quantity is enough to treat 7-10 people.
Preparation
We prepare all the ingredients, remove the butter and egg from the refrigerator in advance, about an hour before cooking, the butter should become soft and the egg should warm to room temperature. 
Wash the orange and, using a fine grater, remove the zest from it, erase only the top orange layer, it is this layer that contains essential oils, which will give the orange aroma to our liver, and the rest of the white part of the skin can be bitter, so try to leave it all on the orange. 
Place soft mixture in a mixing bowl butter and sugar, beat them until a fluffy light mass is obtained. 
Add the egg and beat until smooth. By this point, the sugar should have completely dissolved. 
Add orange zest and mix. 
Sift the flour and baking powder into a separate container, add salt and mix very thoroughly, it’s convenient to do this with a whisk, so everything will mix well. 
Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix well, at first you can use a mixer, but at the end you will most likely have to add it with your hands. You will get a rather sticky dough, collect it into a ball, cover with film and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour. 
In a small bowl or deep plate, mix cinnamon and sugar. 
After an hour, take the dough out of the refrigerator, roll it into balls with a diameter of about 3 cm (I took 15 grams of dough for each ball). Roll each ball in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. 
Line a baking tray with baking paper or place silicone mat. Place the balls at a distance of about 3 cm from each other. Bake for 10 minutes in an oven preheated to 200°C. 
Orange cookies cinnamon ready, enjoy the wonderful taste and aroma! 
- Soften the butter at room temperature and mix with sugar. Add three tablespoons of sour cream and beat in the egg. Mix thoroughly, add a pinch of salt and half a teaspoon of baking soda or one spoon of baking powder.
- Add sifted flour in small quantities and knead into a loose dough. Transfer the dough into a plastic bag and refrigerate. Meanwhile, while the dough is resting, prepare the filling.
- Remove the zest from the orange. Remove the pulp from films and seeds. Place the freed orange pulp into a blender bowl, add the zest, sugar and a tablespoon of starch and beat with a blender until smooth. Roll out the chilled dough with a rolling pin on a floured table into a cake 4 mm high.
- Spread the orange filling evenly and once again level it with a knife blade over the entire surface, not reaching a couple of centimeters to one of the edges. Roll the dough with the filling into a roll towards the ungreased edge.
- Transfer the roll to a flat board and put it in the refrigerator while the oven preheats. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. Remove the roll from the refrigerator and cut into small portions with a sharp knife that does not crush the edges.
- Post soft cookies with orange filling on a greased baking sheet at a short distance from each other, grease with mashed yolk and bake for about 20 minutes.
- 280 g flour
- 80 g sour cream
- 80 g sugar
- 80 g butter
- 1 egg
- 0.5 tsp. baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 1 orange (I have 250 g)
- 30 g sugar
- 1 tbsp. l. starch
- yolk (for lubrication)
- nuts for sprinkling (optional)
Today I am very, very delicious cookies! The principle of preparing dough and molding is similar to, but only the dough contains sugar and dough with a larger amount of sour cream, the ratio of proportions is simple, almost 80 of everything, except for flour, it’s easy to remember)) A whole orange is used in the filling, so the baked goods turn out incredibly aromatic, and very tasty. After baking, the cookies didn’t last even a day, they were eaten instantly))
P.S. The cookies are not very sweet, so increase the amount of sugar if desired.
Preparation:
Prepare the dough.
Place flour, sugar, baking powder and a large pinch of salt into a food processor.
Add cubes of butter. The quality of butter is very important for good taste, therefore, I won’t tire of repeating - choose quality product, preferably 82% fat.
Grind.
If you don't have a food processor, you can simply rub the flour and butter with your fingertips.
Add egg and sour cream (I used 20%). Both from the refrigerator.
Quickly knead the dough, then gather it into a ball with your hands. Do not knead for a long time, only as little as possible to gather it into a ball.
Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Let's prepare the filling.
It is very important to check if the orange is bitter!
Try a piece of peel with the white part; if it has a piquant orange flavor with a subtle pleasant bitterness, then use the first method. If the peel is quite bitter, then use the second method.
First method. Cut the orange into slices and remove the seeds, if any. Grind in a blender (along with the peel), add sugar and starch, and grind again, you get a fairly thick and homogeneous mass.
Second method. The same one I used in - . You only need to peel off the colored layer of the zest with a vegetable peeler, and remove the white layer (it’s called albedo), which is what’s bitter in this case. And grind the remaining peeled orange and colored zest in a blender, then also add sugar and starch, and grind again.
P.S. If your mass turns out to be liquid, no matter what method you used to prepare (although this is more important for the second method since we removed the albedo, and it contains most of the pectin, which gives a thick consistency), then be sure to transfer the mass into a saucepan with thick bottom, boil over heat until thick and cool completely.
I hope I didn’t confuse you with my long explanation)) I used the first method and didn’t cook the mass, there was no need, it turned out very thick anyway. But it all depends on the particular orange!
Forming cookies.
Roll out the dough into a large rectangle, approximately 3-4 mm thick.
Apply the filling evenly, not reaching a couple of centimeters at the far edge.
Wrap in a tight roll.
Brush with lightly beaten yolk in a bowl. Cut into 16 pieces.
It's delicious shortbread with orange filling it’s not for nothing that they’re called “Orange Tenderness”: it just melts in your mouth. And the smell of citrus creates a festive mood. It is easy to prepare; no exotic ingredients are required. The main thing is to have an orange on hand and the desire to cook something delicious!
Ingredients
For cooking you will need to prepare the following products:
- 250 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 1 egg;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
- 50 g butter (soft, not from the freezer);
- 100 g granulated sugar.
To prepare the filling:
- 1 medium sized orange;
- 150 g granulated sugar;
- 1 tbsp. spoon with a heap of starch.
For decoration - powdered sugar.
This quick, simple recipe is added to the “piggy bank” by everyone who has ever tried orange cookies. Instead of butter, it is permissible to use margarine or spread in the recipe, and instead of baking powder from a bag, soda (0.5 teaspoon). The fat content of sour cream can be any.
Instead of an orange, even the cake that remains after receiving homemade juice. To enhance the aroma and taste, it should be mixed with zest.
How to cook
We will start by preparing the usual shortcrust pastry with sour cream, it is universal and suitable for baking with any filling.
Homemade cookies with a citrus layer are aromatic, they should definitely be prepared on New Year. Due to the delicate shortbread dough, the rolls simply melt in your mouth.
You can also prepare it in the form of bagels instead of rolls. To do this, roll out the dough into a circle and cut it into segments. Look like in the photo: 
Then add the filling and bake. It turns out such beauty!
Important! Don't be afraid that the orange peel will give off bitterness. On the contrary, she will do shortbread dough more fragrant. Instead of puree fresh orange can be included in the recipe orange jam by boiling the puree with starch or a small amount of gelling sugar. This filling will definitely not leak.
Fans of more sour options can mix half a lemon and an orange for the filling; those with a sweet tooth can use tangerines. If you don’t have citrus fruits at home, you can make shortbread cookies with any jam or even apples.
Video
I found a video for you so you can see the whole process.
Children will love delicious orange cookies made from shortcrust pastry and adults will appreciate them. Its aroma will create festive atmosphere and comfort in any home. Cook with pleasure and bon appetit! And if you have questions, ask in the comments.
Sometimes you want something sweet and you’re too lazy to bother with a cake or cupcake, but cookies are a great option! The advantage of the cookie recipe that I want to offer is that ready dough You need to keep it in the refrigerator for half an hour. During this time, you can do other things or just lie down :-) You can make a lot of orange cookies! It is covered with a delicate crust on top, but remains soft and fluffy inside.
I indicate 1 orange in the ingredients. We squeeze the juice out of it and “extract” the zest. I just got 90 ml of juice from one orange.
Let's prepare all the products on the list for cookies with orange.
It is most convenient to make the dough in a food processor. Pour flour, baking powder and sugar into it. Add chopped cold butter there and beat it into crumbs. If there is no convenient device, then we grind all of the above into crumbs with our hands. Please note that you may need more or less flour than the specified amount. It’s better not to add it all, but to look at the consistency. Do not fill it with flour, otherwise the cookies will turn out tough.
Then add the egg, zest and orange juice (90 ml) to the dry mixture. And knead the dough.
Place the finished dough in a bag and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Take the dough out of the refrigerator, pinch off a piece and form cookies the size of Walnut. Roll the cookies in powdered sugar and place it on a baking sheet covered with parchment, at a considerable distance from each other, because it will “float”. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. The cookies will remain light.
Carefully remove the finished orange cookies (they are very tender) from the baking sheet and cool on a wire rack. Hot cookies will feel very soft. But as it cools, it will acquire the same tender crust, but the inside will remain soft.
Serve cookies with milk.
Bon appetit!
