I love to bake cookies. Really. And I prefer baking for others to eat. Mostly because I put on weight easily and couldn't possibly eat all the cookies that I really would like to eat.
I just had to share the experience of making the rare, almost never seen out of its natural midwestern habitat, Orange Cookie. Orange Cookies were almost never found at my house even at Christmas. Nope. Why not? They are delicious. They are cakey and sweet. They actually taste like orange. They have lovely icing--AHA! There's the kicker. As a kid I had no idea that there were people out there regularly icing their cookies.
I can't speak for my mother, but I suspect that she did not like to frost cookies. For example, I thought that sugar cookies were called sugar cookies because you sprinkled sugar on them. I didn't realize that it was because they are sugary goodness and most people put even more sugary icing on them. Who knew?!
So, of course, we all like to think that we don't have the hang-ups of our mothers. So why don't I make the sugary, sweet, orange, frosted cookies? Well, I don't keep orange juice in the house. I should find out if there is such a think as powdered orange juice, not Tang, but real stuff. There has got to be. Seriously, you can get powdered milk...
I don't mind frosting the cookies and the best part about these is that the frosting gets nice and stiff. You're supposed to use wax paper to separate the layers of cookies, but I don't. Honey-badger just don't care....
So, rethinking the cookie line up. What was really fun was that I know mom would always use orange food color so that the cookies were "orange." I made the frosting, well, mauve? even towards a lilac. I used pink, but the cream color of the frosting clearly influenced the end color more than I figured. Too cute. My daughter LOVES it.
Happy Baking.
I just had to share the experience of making the rare, almost never seen out of its natural midwestern habitat, Orange Cookie. Orange Cookies were almost never found at my house even at Christmas. Nope. Why not? They are delicious. They are cakey and sweet. They actually taste like orange. They have lovely icing--AHA! There's the kicker. As a kid I had no idea that there were people out there regularly icing their cookies.
I can't speak for my mother, but I suspect that she did not like to frost cookies. For example, I thought that sugar cookies were called sugar cookies because you sprinkled sugar on them. I didn't realize that it was because they are sugary goodness and most people put even more sugary icing on them. Who knew?!
So, of course, we all like to think that we don't have the hang-ups of our mothers. So why don't I make the sugary, sweet, orange, frosted cookies? Well, I don't keep orange juice in the house. I should find out if there is such a think as powdered orange juice, not Tang, but real stuff. There has got to be. Seriously, you can get powdered milk...
I don't mind frosting the cookies and the best part about these is that the frosting gets nice and stiff. You're supposed to use wax paper to separate the layers of cookies, but I don't. Honey-badger just don't care....
So, rethinking the cookie line up. What was really fun was that I know mom would always use orange food color so that the cookies were "orange." I made the frosting, well, mauve? even towards a lilac. I used pink, but the cream color of the frosting clearly influenced the end color more than I figured. Too cute. My daughter LOVES it.
Happy Baking.
I've never had Orange Cookies, and I'm a midwesterner. I've never even heard of them. I feel so left out.
ReplyDeleteThere wasn't much cookie baking going on in our house unless I was doing it. Before The Divorce my mom had a cake decorating business, so if the baking wasn't for money, it didn't happen much. Except pie, our family was very into pie. My husband doesn't like pie so I hardly ever make it. After The Divorce everything was pretty much fend for yourself.
Stepmother #1 was not much of a cook. She made a lot of Christmas cookies, but other than that, you didn't want to eat much of what she made. I do have an awesome cut-out cookie recipe she inherited from her grandmother. Anyway, my cookie repetoire was pretty much the basic stuff, oatmeal, chocolate chip, peanut butter, and the Russian Tea Cake recipe I found in the Betty Crocker Cookbook and loved to make just because I'm part Russian. I'd make more cookies now if I were at my goal weight. Maybe someday that will happen. A girl can dream.
Current step-mother is actually a good cook and always has cookies around, but also generally the usual suspects. We're only there a few times a year, though. I wish she'd make Xanax cookies for our visits, I need them.
Those were some damn tasty cookies!
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