Orange Cream Cheese Gluten Free Cookies
These are amazingly good. Like little, moist, fine textured cakes.
From the blog: "Seriously, You're Taking My Bagels?" by caconroy "The recipe is my Mom's take on a fairly boring Cream Cheese Cookie from the Betty Crocker's Cooky Book."
Orange Cream Cheese Cookies
Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter or margarine, soft
1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, soft
1 egg yolk
1/4 tsp. vanilla
1 pkg. gluten free yellow cake mix
1 grated orange rind (or 1/4 teas orange oil)
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup Grand Marnier (I used Triple Sec)
Cream butter and cheese. Blend in egg yolk, vanilla, orange rind, orange juice and Grand Marnier. Add cake mix 1/3 at a time, mix well. Chill dough at least 1/2 hour.
Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Drop my scant teasponfuls on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until delicately browned. Cool cookies a bit before removing from baking sheet.
Makes 6 to 8 dozen cookies.
I used scant tablespoons to scoop out the dough which I chilled a couple hours. I baked them 10 minutes. It made 55 cookies. Here is the glaze I made up. It is just approximate. Add the amount or fluid that you like for your desired consistency.
Orange Icing
2 1/2 cups confect sugar
4+ Table OJ
2 teas zest or a few drops of orange oil
enough lemon juice to reach your desired consistency.
I just dipped the cooled cookies upside down in the icing. let them drip off a bit and then back onto the cooling rack placed over a large piece of wax or freezer paper. They keep just great in a cookie tin or tupperware.
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