Blood Orange Frosted Sugar Cookies
Blood orange zest sugar cookies topped with naturally pink blood orange icing.
Equipment
- Baking sheet
- Standing mixer Optional
Ingredients
Orange Sugar Cookie
- 1 cup unsalted butter softned
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- zest of 1 large orange
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup almond flour
- 2 cups all purpose flour
Blood Orange Icing
- 1/2 cup fresh squeezed blood orange juice
- 4 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Cream together butter, sugars, salt, vanilla, egg and zest
- Gradually mix in both flours until mixture comes together in a ball, do not over mix!
- Cover dough in plastic wrap and let chill in the fridge for 30 min
- Preheat oven to 350
- Allow dough to come to room temperature then roll on a floured surface about 1/4" thick
- Cut dough into desired shapes and place on a lined baking sheet
- Bake for 11 min until the edges are slightly browned
- Transfer to cooling rack and let cool completely before icing
- Dip the tops of each cookie into the icing and place back on the cooling rack letting the icing layer dry before dipping again (about 3-4 dips or until desired thickness of icing on each cookie)
- Enjoy!