Posted by kdipaolo May 9, 2001

Dough
1 orange
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup margarine or shortening
2 eggs
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk

Glaze
1 orange
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons margarine, melted

For cookie dough: Grate peel of orange; cut orange in half and squeeze out juice. You will have about 2 teaspoons peel and about 1/4 cup juice. Set peel and juice aside.

In a large bowl, beat sugar, margarine and eggs until fluffy. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl. Gradually add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to egg mixture; beat until well mixed. Add reserved 2 teaspoons orange peel and 1/4 cup reserved juice. Mix well.

Drop dough by teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet, leaving room for cookies to spread slightly. Baked in a 350 degree F oven 10 to 13 minutes, or until cookie springs back in middle when touched. Cookies should be very light in color; rim of cookies will be a light brown. Transfer cookies to a rack to cool.

While cookies are cooling, prepare glaze. Grate peel of orange; cut orange in half and squeeze out juice. You will have about 2 teaspoons peel and about 1/4 cup juice. Blend 1 to 2 teaspoons of the orange peel (depending on taste), orange juice, powdered sugar and melted margarine. Use to glaze cooled cookies, using about 1/2 teaspoon glaze per cookie.

Yield: About 7 dozen cookies