Orange Icebox Cookies
Source of Recipe
Sunday Dinner
List of Ingredients
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. grated orange rind
1/2 beaten egg (about 2 Tbsps.)
2 Tbsps. orange juice with pulp
11/2 cups all-purpose flour
11/2 tsps. baking powder
1/3 cup pine nuts
nutmeg sugar (mix together 1/4 tsp. nutmeg with 2 Tbsps. sugar)
Recipe
Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add orange rind, egg,
orange
juice and 1/4 cup flour. Beat well to combine.
Add the baking powder and remaining flour gradually, beating well
after each
addition.
Shape into a roll about 10 inches long. Roll in wax paper. Chill
thoroughly
for at least 3 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 375.
Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray with flour. Cut
cookie
dough into 1/4-inch thick slices. Place on cookie sheet. Press two or
three
pine nuts on each. Sprinkle with the nutmeg sugar.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until golden. Cool completely on rack.
Makes 30 to 35 cookies.
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