Orange crinkle cookies
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. This will be the most eagerly awaited cookie for your loved ones—but don’t let them peek into the oven while it’s baking! Let the whole process be a complete surprise: how such little dough balls can turn into such tempting cookies. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the listed ingredients. Scald the orange with boiling water and grate the zest. Then cut it in half and squeeze the juice from the fruit.
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Step 2
Set aside 2 tbsp sugar for coating. Beat the chicken egg with sugar and salt until light and fluffy. A mixer or food processor works best for this. Add orange zest to the egg mixture, pour in orange juice and neutral vegetable oil, and mix thoroughly.
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Step 3
Stir cornmeal, wheat flour, and baking powder into the mixture.
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Step 4
The finished dough will be very sticky and hard to gather into a ball. Put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
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Step 5
After that, remove it from the refrigerator and roll equal-sized balls. Pour the remaining sugar onto one small plate and powdered sugar onto another. Roll the balls first in sugar, then in powdered sugar.
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Step 6
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place the dough balls on parchment paper. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
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Step 7
Bake until golden brown on the upper rack of the oven, watching the bottoms of the cookies so they don’t burn.
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Step 8
Let the baked cookies cool for 5 minutes, then remove them from the parchment paper right away, or they may stick to it once cooled. Serve the colourful bake at the table.