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.
Honey and Orange Cookie
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

  1. ½ cup toasted chopped walnuts
  2. 2 tbsp sugar
  3. ½ tsp cinnamon powder

Instructions for the syrup

  1. Combine all the ingredients for syrup in a pot.
  2. Simmer for 10 minutes.
  3. Remove the cinnamon stick.

Instructions for the topping

  1. Combine the ingredients for topping together.

Instructions for ingredients

  1. Combine ingredients in a bowl.
  2. Shape them into oval cookies (each about 2-inches long).
  3. Bake on parchment lined or ungreased baking sheet for about 20 minutes until golden.
  4. Cool and dip them quickly in honey syrup.
  5. Roll cookies into topping mixture.