Cranberry Orange Cookies Recipe

This Cranberry Orange Cookies Recipe is full of that fresh cranberry and fresh orange flavor that we love, but made with simple and dried ingredients!

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This cookie recipe does require chilling the dough for 1 hour once you make it.

Ingredients Cookie – All-purpose flour (sifted) – Cold butter (cut into small pieces) – Cottage cheese – Dried cranberries – Orange zest

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Instructions: To Make the Cookies 1. Start by cutting the butter into the flour. The butter pieces should be the size of small peas.

2. Grab the dried cranberries and stir them into the mixture along with the orange zest and cottage cheese. This should form a ball of dough. 3. Put in the fridge and let it chill for 1 hour.

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4. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. 5. Put parchment paper on a baking sheet and roll out the dough so that it's 1/8 inch thick.

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6. Put them on the baking sheet and add them to the center rack of the oven. Bake for 15 minutes or so. 7. Take out and put on a wire rack for cooling time.

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To Make the Icing 1. Mix the butter and cream cheese until fluffy. 2. Add in the extract and powdered sugar and stir.

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3. Stir in a tad bit of water, milk, or orange juice if you need to thin it out. 4. Use a whisk to drizzle the homemade icing over the top of the cookies.

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