Orange Cardamom Cookies Recipe

Posted by
Rate It!
Orange Cardamom Cookies
Add your photo!
Ingredients
9
Count
Nutrition
8184
Calories
Total time
210
Minutes
Comments Print recipe

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tbsp grated orange zest
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cardamom
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 sticks (1/2 lb) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 2 tbsp heavy cream
  • garnish: citrus icing (optional); food coloring (optional); decorative sugar (optional)

Directions:

  1. Make dough: Whisk together flour, zest, cardamom, and salt.
  2. Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in yolk and cream. At low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches just until a dough forms. Quarter dough and form each piece into a 6-inch disk, then chill, wrapped separately in plastic wrap, until firm, 2 to 3 hours.
  3. Cut and bake cookies: Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
  4. Roll out 1 piece of dough between sheets of parchment paper into an 11-inch round (1/8 inch thick). Slide dough in parchment onto a tray and chill until firm, about 15 minutes.
  5. Cut out as many cookies as possible with cookie cutter (chill dough again if necessary), reserving and chilling scraps. Transfer cookies to a parchment-lined large baking sheet, arranging them 1 inch apart.
  6. Bake until edges are golden-brown, 9 to 12 minutes. Cool on baking sheet 5 minutes, then slide cookies, still on parchment, onto a rack to cool completely.
  7. Make more cookies with remaining dough and scraps (reroll only once) on cooled freshly lined baking sheets.
  8. If icing cookies and coloring icing, transfer small batches to small bowls, 1 for each color, and tint with food coloring. Spoon each color of icing into separate sealable bags, pressing out excess air, and snip an 1/8-inch opening in 1 bottom corner of each bag. Pipe icing onto a plate to test consistency. If too thick, thin a small batch with a few drops of orange juice.
  9. Decoratively pipe icing onto cookies, then sprinkle with decorative sugar (if using) and let dry completely, about 1 hour (depending on humidity).
  10. Cook's notes: · To make three-dimensional cookies, start with cut (but not baked) cookies on lined baking sheet. Make a 1 1/2-inch-long notch (1/3 inch wide) in each cookie, cutting toward center. If you want to make the cookies into ornaments, punch out a small hole (for string or ribbon to go through) on each side of notch on half of cookies using a piping tip with a 1/4-inch round opening. Bake and cool as directed. To make sure pairs of cookies fit, interlock cookies (one cookie with holes and one without) at notches to form sphere- or cube-like shapes. If necessary, carefully trim notches with a small sharp knife. If desired, ice unassembled cookies, avoiding middle portion near notch. Tie string or ribbon (if using) through holes of cookies and interlock. · Using a pastry bag fitted with a piping tip results in cleaner lines of icing. · Dough can be chilled up to 2 days. · Cookies (not interlocked) keep, layered between sheets of parchment if iced, in an airtight container at room temperature 1 week.
Kitchen-Friendly View

Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 8183.85 Kcal (34264 kJ)
Calories from fat 6786.95 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 754.11g 1160%
Cholesterol 2177.15mg 726%
Sodium 2516.51mg 105%
Potassium 698.49mg 15%
Total Carbs 333.19g 111%
Sugars 88.2g 353%
Dietary Fiber 11.21g 45%
Protein 47.93g 96%
Vitamin C 13.2mg 22%
Vitamin A 9.1mg 302%
Iron 4.6mg 26%
Calcium 340.4mg 34%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 581.45 Kcal (2434 kJ)
Calories from fat 482.2 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 53.58g 1160%
Cholesterol 154.68mg 726%
Sodium 178.79mg 105%
Potassium 49.63mg 15%
Total Carbs 23.67g 111%
Sugars 6.27g 353%
Dietary Fiber 0.8g 45%
Protein 3.41g 96%
Vitamin C 0.9mg 22%
Vitamin A 0.6mg 302%
Iron 0.3mg 26%
Calcium 24.2mg 34%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
Search recipes
by ingredients
Search
Construct & Analyze
Your Recipe
Analyze

Try this similar recipes

View More

Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 225.7
    Points
  • 234
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

Also Try

Share Recipe

Recipes▼
Search
Get Your Recipe of Health!
Follow RecipeOfHealth on Facebook!
Scroll to top