Carrot Cookies With Orange Frosting
"we really love these...I usually make the dough and chill overnight.."
- Ready In:
- 24hrs 8mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
3 1/2 dozen
ingredients
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 cup carrot, cooked, mashed
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
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ORANGE FROSTING
- 16 ounces powdered sugar
- 1⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large orange, juice and zest of, grated
directions
- beat crisco, sugar and egg together.add carrots.mix well.
- add remaining ingredients and mix well.
- cover and chill overnight.
- drop by tblsful on ungreased cookie sheet.
- bake at 350* for 8-10 minutes --
- cookies will be soft to the touch.and lightly browned.
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ORANGE FROSTING:
- combine powdered sugar, 1/4 cup softened butter, vanilla with juice from one large orange.along with zest from same orange.I usually roll orange around on counter to help juices release and zest before I juice the orange.if frosting seems too stiff.you may have to add a little milk till of spreading consistency -- frost cookies when removed from oven -- while they are still warm -- .
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I love cooking, and reading Christian fiction..I have 5 grandchildren..4 boys and 1 spoiled granddaughter...I also have a black cocker spaniel named Tobey..who is very spoiled..Love computer games, cross stitch and reading cookbooks..I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia almost a year ago, on September 26, 2005....was in an out of the hospital for 8 months, doing intensive chemo...I am doing well now, thanks for all the prayers...
