Honey and Orange Cookies
These lightly spiced cookies have subtle flavours of honey and orange. Honey keeps these cookies soft and chewy, making them ideal for the cookie jar.
Serves
4
Cooking Time
30 mins
Cuisine
International
Ingredients
- 1 cup planta margarine
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 3 ¼ cups flour
- ½ tsp cinnamon powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
Ingredients for the syrup
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup water
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 1 cm cinnamon stick
Ingredients for the topping
- ½ cup toasted chopped walnuts
- 2 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon powder
Instructions for the syrup
- Combine all the ingredients for syrup in a pot.
- Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Remove the cinnamon stick.
Instructions for the topping
- Combine the ingredients for topping together.
Instructions for ingredients
- Combine ingredients in a bowl.
- Shape them into oval cookies (each about 2-inches long).
- Bake on parchment lined or ungreased baking sheet for about 20 minutes until golden.
- Cool and dip them quickly in honey syrup.
- Roll cookies into topping mixture.
