Orange cookies are a flavorful unusual dessert with notes of citrus, which is perfect for a festive tea party. Such cookies can be prepared by yourself, they do not require complex cooking skills. The main component for the filling is orange. It gives the crumbly dough a special flavor with a slight, barely noticeable sourness.
The filling in the sand dough turns out bright orange, beautiful when cut.
Oranges were first added to baked goods in the Middle Ages. At that time, the fruit was considered quite expensive. Therefore, only rich people could afford it. Gradually, recipes for desserts with orange were improved. A great contribution to the development of citrus pastries was made by confectioners from Italy. It was there that the famous Biscotti and Amaretti appeared.
Let’s tell you how to cook a simple cookie with orange “Alyonka in a diaper”
Ingredients for the dough:
- flour – 300 g;
- salt – a pinch;
- leavening agent – ½ tsp;
- vanilla sugar – 2 tsp;
- butter – 100 g;
- sour cream – 150 g;
- egg – 1 pc.
Ingredients for the filling:
- oranges – 450 g;
- sugar – 100 g;
- cornstarch – 2 tbsp.
Preparation of orange cookies:
Mix flour with salt, baking powder and vanilla sugar. Grate the cold butter into the flour on a coarse grater
and rub the butter with the flour until crumbly. Add sour cream to the dough, beat an egg and knead elastic not sticky dough.
Leave the dough under cellophane in the refrigerator for half an hour. For the filling, grate the orange zest finely, remove the peel and cut the pulp into small pieces. Grind
the pulp with a blender until smooth. Put the orange
mixture
into a saucepan, add sugar and cornstarch and stir.
Bring the mixture to a thickening over medium heat and then cook
it
for 30 seconds. Put the stuffing in a mold, cover with food film in contact.
Leave the stuffing to cool in the refrigerator. In the meantime, knead the dough, form a dough
ball. Divide the dough ball into 4 equal parts, roll each into a thin round layer with a diameter of 30 cm. Divide the dough into 8 triangles
and place the filling on the wide side of each triangle.
Tuck the thick edges of the dough into the middle, pinch the end, roll the filling into a roll.
Place the rolls on a baking tray lined with parchment, spaced apart
.
Bake the cookies at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
After cooling, roll the cookies in powdered sugar.
You get tender soft cookies with orange filling.
