Orange Dreams

Baked: 2014, 2019

Susan Warren North Manchester, Indiana - From Best-Loved Cookies and Bars 2009

Drop cookies - 350F oven

Yield 4-1/2 Dozen

 

Ingredients:

·         1 cup butter, softened

·         ½ cup sugar

·         ½ cup packed brown sugar

·         1 egg

·         1 tablespoon grated orange peel

·         2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour

·         ¾ teaspoon baking soda

·         ½ teaspoon salt

·         1-1/2 cups vanilla or white chips

Directions:

1.       In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and orange peel. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in vanilla chips.

2.       Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Swedish Ginger Cookies

 -first made 2014

 – Pepparkakor

Bake: 350°F for 7-10 min

Ingredients:

·       1 cup butter

·       1-1/2 cups white sugar

·       1 tablespoon white corn syrup

·       1 large egg

·       1 tsp baking soda

·       2 tsp cinnamon

·       2 tsp ginger

·       1 scant tsp cloves

·       2-1/2 cups white flour (sifted)

Method:

1.  Cream butter together with sugar and corn syrup until smooth.

2.  Add egg and beat well

3.  Stir in soda, cinnamon, ginger and cloves

4.  Fold in flour

5.  Add more flour as needed, to make dough easy to handle.

6.  Roll dough onto floured board with rolling pin to about ¼ inch thickness.

7.  Cut into heart shapes

8.  Place on ungreased or parchmented cookie sheet and bake for 7 to 10minutes in a 350 oven.

9.  Remove from pan when cool and store in airtight containers.

By Catrine Kostenius-Foster, Lulea, Sweden

2014 Cookie Day Results

Thank you  to all the Bakers who came out and joined us.
Quiet Friday evening, Just us family members. Con, Boug, & Sami, joined Vicki after she was done at work and had dinner at Lassen's in Homewood. Ashley joined us after dinner and we got about 7 refrigerator doughs ready for the next day and headed to bed by Midnight.
Next morning, we had breakfast, started the ovens and before 10am Ose was at the door with more dough and we were off!
Eric showed up with Mimosa makings. Maricka surprised all of us by joining us and being our photographer for awhile.

Cari came with Kaitlin and Emme,
Alfie came and made a couple recipes.
Courtney came and wore an apron for a bit. by then, we were winding down - back to just Connie, Vicki and I and we finished up the last of the doughs and called it a night.

With no further ado - the results!

And the results are in! Let me know if I forgot any

Cookie	Who made it:
Almond Galatte	Boug
Angie's Figgy Cookie	Connie
Benne Cakes	Vicki
Chip & Dip cookies	Emme
Chocolate - Chewy Cookies	Vicki
Chocolate Blossoms - Hershey	Boug & Vic
Chocolate Chip - Maple bacon	Kaitlin
Chocolate chip Davids Famous	Ashley
Chocolate Crinkles	Connie
Chocolate Mint Cookie	Boug
Chocolate Peanut Butter Buddy Bars	Ashley
Chocolate Snowflakes	Ashley
Cranberry Pistachio	Cari
Cranberry White Chocolate	Alfie
Butter Cookie - Dutch	Cari
Fudge	Vicki
Ginger Cookies	Ose
Ginger Cookies Swedish	Sami
Guinness Cookies	Cari
Icebox Cookies - Aunt Ione's	Ose
Kiefles	Vicki
Meringue - Sami's Awesome	Sami
Mocha Nut Rounds	Ose
MorMor's	Boug
Nut Cups - Debbies	Sami
Oatmeal - chunky Vanilla Raisin	Alfie
Oatmeal - Leonards	Connie
Palmiers	Vicki
Pink Princess Piggies	Vicki
Rice Krispy with M&M's	Cari
Rugelach - Spicy Nut	Emme
Shortbread Coffee	Boug
Shortbread Jelly Logs	Vicki
Snowcap cookies	Cari
Speculaas (windmill)	Boug
Spritz - Vi Anderson	Vicki
Sugar Cookies Roll out Candy Canes	Emme/Kaitlin
Turtle Pretzel	Kaitlin

Big Soft Ginger Cookies

These nicely spiced, big soft ginger cookies are perfect for folks who like the flavor of ginger but don't care for crunchy gingersnaps. —Barbara Gray, Boise, Idaho

Big Soft Ginger Cookies Recipe photo by Taste of Home

Total Time

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 10 min./batch 350F

Makes: 2-1/2 dozen

 https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/big-soft-ginger-cookies/

Ingredients 

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Additional sugar

 

Directions

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and molasses. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well.
• Roll into 1-1/2-in. balls, then roll in sugar. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° until puffy and lightly browned, 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Test Kitchen Tips

The difference between these soft ginger cookies and the crispy kind you use to construct a holiday gingerbread house has to do with the leavening agent. (Think: yeast, baking soda or baking powder.) Leave out the baking soda in this recipe and the cookies will come out hard and crisp.

For less mess, coat your measuring cups in cooking spray before portioning it out.

Have extra ginger on hand? Here are 48 more zesty, zingy, heartwarming recipes to make.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 111 calories, 5g fat (3g saturated fat), 19mg cholesterol, 98mg sodium, 16g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.