Babcia’s Orange Buttermilk Cookies

Babcia’s Orange Buttermilk Cookies

Happy Monday everyone!  With Christmas only a couple weeks away my kitchen is still generating goodies at healthy (or rather unhealthy) rate.  It will soon be time to start doing up some packages and sending them out for delivery.  Every year I make a list and try to add a couple people who would not be expecting anything.  Don’t you just find that so rewarding to feel like you have brought one smile to someone who was least expecting it?  Maybe it is a way of showing appreciation, letting someone know you care if they are going through a rough patch, or simply welcoming someone to new environment.   Whatever your reasons are, it’s fun to spread some cheer 🙂

I’m getting this particular package of orange buttermilk cookies out for a rather long delivery.  These are Babcia’s orange buttermilk cookie recipe and I’m going to ship some out to her to beautiful British Columbia. (Thank you Sue for letting me steal your idea!).  When I was a child growing up, it was rare that we got to have both grandma’s for Christmas.  My  paternal grandma has always been on the other side of Canada, out west.  At Christmas when she wasn’t with us she would always send our family a Christmas care package.  In it, we would find our gifts,  and a large box of her orange buttermilk cookies and various other goodies.  It was of course not as good as having her here, but a close second.

The last time she visited us in Ontario, I made her these cookies from her own recipe and she gobbled them up with child like delight!  She sadly has alzheimer’s now, but I’m hoping these will conjure up a feeling of contentment, from all the Christmas’ past, when she would share her own love with these delicious cookies!

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Babcia's Orange Buttermilk Cookies

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Babcia's Orange Buttermilk cookies stay soft and pillowy. Fresh and citrusy, you can also change it up with lemon or lime.

Servings	Prep Time
5 dozen	20 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Servings Prep Time 5 dozen 20 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Babcia's Orange Buttermilk Cookies Yum Print Recipe Babcia's Orange Buttermilk cookies stay soft and pillowy. Fresh and citrusy, you can also change it up with lemon or lime. Servings Prep Time 5 dozen 20 minutes Cook Time 10 minutes Servings Prep Time 5 dozen 20 minutes Cook Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

For the Cookie

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp salt
• 5 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 cup Buttermilk
• 3 tbsp orange juice
• 2 tsp orange zest

For the Frosting

• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 3 tbsp orange juice
• 2 tsp orange zest
• 1 +1/2 cups icing sugar

Servings: dozen

Instructions

For the Cookies

1. Cream sugar, shortening and butter until fluffy
2. Add eggs
3. Sift flour, baking soda and salt
4. Add dry mixture alternatively with buttermilk to the mixture
5. Add the orange juice and zest
6. Drop by teaspoons onto a parchment lined baking sheet and and bake for approx 10 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

   

For the Frosting

1. Mix the melted butter, icing sugar, orange juice and zest and brush lightly over slightly cooled cookies
2. Enjoy!

   

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