Orange Cookies Recipe by Ruth Paget
Makes 12 cookies
Ingredients:
-2½ cups flour
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 teaspoon cinnamon
-1 cup sugar
-1 teaspoon grated orange rind
-1 cup olive oil
-1 (3-ounce) package of cream cheese
-1 teaspoon vanilla extract
-1 egg yolk -parchment paper
Steps:
1-Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2-Combine flour, salt, cinnamon, and orange rind in a bowl and blend well (dry ingredients).
3-In another bowl, mix together olive oil, cream cheese, vanilla extract, and egg yolk (wet ingredients). Blend wet ingredients till creamy.
4-Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and blend well.
5-Use two spoons to measure and push the dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15 minutes and cool on a rack.
(A Royal Oak, Michigan recipe)
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
