Delicious citrus cookies that are baked around the holidays and are soft and cake-like. fantastic with a cup of tea!
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 48 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- ½ cup margarine
- ½ cup white sugar
- 3 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ orange, juiced
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ¼ cup sprinkles or colored sugar for decoration
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
- In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla and orange juice. Sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda; stir into the orange mixture. The consistency will be thick and sticky. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Cool on wire racks.
- In a small bowl, stir together the confectioners’ sugar, lemon juice and milk until smooth. Dip the tops of cooled cookies into the icing, then into sprinkles. Let stand until set.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 79 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 13 g |
| Cholesterol | 12 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 0 g |
| Sodium | 61 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I followed the recipe and everyone in the house was happy with the results. We tend to like desserts that aren’t overly sweet, so the subtle taste was good. I might consider adding orange zest to them next time and maybe double the lemon juice in the glaze. They are disappearing fast!
I added a bit of lemon and orange zest for color and flavor. I think next time I’ll add just a tad more sugar but these made a GREAT cookie cutter dough!
I was very disappointed because they don’t really taste of orange at all. If it weren’t for the lemon juice in the icing I think they would be pretty bland!
Delicious! Great recipe and not too sweet – just what I was hoping for. Thanks for sharing!
Tasty little orange cookie… I added lime and orange peel to the glaze
I have made this cookie with my family my whole life. This is a traditional Italian Christmas cookie. It does not need altering as past posters have suggested. This is the way it is supposed to taste, and is perfect. I was going to post my own Anginette recipe on here, but this is pretty much it. They are light, citrus-y, and delicious. It isn’t an orange or lemon cookie, that is why it isn’t called an orange or lemon cookie. It is essentially a sugar cookie with a hint of other flavors, and I thank you so much for sharing it so I don’t have to! 🙂
I did not like this version as much as the traditional Anginettes with a lemon flavoring to them. I suggest a few changes that will absolutly blow you away!YOu can always cut recipe in half if you do not need that many. I suggest: Small Bottle Lemon Flavoring (use can use any flavor but lemon is traditional) 1tsp vanilla ¾ cup orange juice 1 ½ cups oil 6 eggs 7 cups Flour ½ tsp baking soda 5 tsp baking powder 2 cups sugar
Thank you for this awesome recipe. These taste very similar to the lemon drop cookies I buy from Italian-American bakeries in my community. I altered the icing recipe to have orange essence, lime juice, and vanilla extract which gave it a lovely little bite. I would make these as a lovely treat for someone anytime of the year. Awesome recipe, and I had fun making them too!
My Aunt who has since passed away would make these cookies, but she never gave out the recipe. These were very close to hers. I used 1/2 cup of orange juice which gave the dough more flavor. The first time I made them, I used 1/4 of orange juice and the cookies were too bland for us. Icing – First time I used lemon flavor as the recipe calls for. Second time I used butter creme or chocolate. They tasted like mini cupcakes that way. Which my kids loved.
Tryed these out for X-Mas but they didn’t turn out so well. I think that instead of the froasting that’s used for this, it should have been a butter-sugar-cream frosting instead. This recipe has much potential. I think a few things could have been altered.
Easy to make. Add nice color to a tin of gift-cookies. I made the dough balls fairly small to keep them bite size so I had to almost triple the frosting amount. Next time I will use the juice of a WHOLE orange instead of just half becuse they came out a little on the bland side until they were frosted.