Recipe: Perfect Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies

Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies.

You can cook Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies

1. It's 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
2. You need 1/2 cup of shortening.
3. You need 1/2 cup of butter.
4. You need 3 of eggs.
5. Prepare 4 cups of AP flour.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
7. Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
8. Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
9. It's of Juice from 3 oranges (about 1 cup).
10. It's 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar.

Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies instructions

1. Cream together sugar, shortening, butter (melted) and eggs in a large bowl..
2. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, buttermilk, and juice from 2 of the oranges. Sometimes I substitute orange juice instead of squeezed. Try 2/3 cup if you do. Mix well. The batter will be similar to heavy pancake batter..
3. Pre-heat oven to 365°F. Spoon out a large spoon of batter onto an ungreased cookie sheet. You can also transfer the batter to a measuring cup and pour them onto the tray..
4. Bake until edges are brown and centers spring back when touched..
5. FROSTING: mix juice from 1 of the squeezed oranges (1/2 cup oj) with powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon melted butter. Then zest the entire skin of an orange into the mixture and mix..
6. Frost while still warm..

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