Sometimes during the warmer months, I forget how much I like baking. Fall is perfect for pies, I love pretty much every baked-good imaginable in Winter, but in Summer I really like to make cookies. Cookies are easy to prep, quick to bake, and store really well. These Orange Crinkle Cookies are sweet, and light, and perfect for a summer treat.
The trick to making these crinkle cookies look so pretty is rolling it in powdered sugar before baking it. I also love that you can see the little flecks of orange zest throughout the dough even after baking. Even if you’re not normally a cookie dough chiller, you’re going to want to chill your dough before creating the cookies for this recipe because if it’s too warm it will stick to your hands and won’t form into a ball for sugar rolling. Other than that, this simple orange crinkle cookie recipe perfect for the warm months of summer!
Orange Crinkle Cookie Ingredients
1 stick unsalted butter – room temperature
1 cup white sugar
2 large eggs – room temperature
1 Tablespoon orange zest
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 Tablespoon fresh orange juice
2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar for rolling
Orange Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Pre-heat your oven to 350-degrees.
In one bowl, whisk together your flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
In your mixing bowl, add your butter, orange zest, and white sugar.
Mix the butter, zest, and sugar until it’s light yellow and fluffy.
To the butter mixture, add your eggs one at a time. Mix until incorporated and then add your vanilla extract.
Once the eggs and extract are mixed well, add your flour mixture about 1/3 at a time.
Continue adding the flour mixture and mixing until you have a thick dough.
Refrigerate your dough for 30 minutes before the next step. It’s easier to handle the cookies if they’re cold.
After 30 minutes, get a plate with about 1/2 cup of powdered sugar for rolling your cookies.
You’ll use 2 tablespoons of dough for each cookie. Since the dough is so sticky, it helps to kind of coat your hands with powdered sugar, then grab a chunk of dough and roll it lightly into a ball. Then toss it into the powdered sugar and roll it around to coat it.
Place each round ball on a parchment-lined cookie sheet an inch apart.
Bake for 10-12 minutes. While they’re baking, the parts not covered in powdered sugar will look a little wet. When they look “dry” they’re done baking. You don’t want them to brown and you want them to stay soft, so just keep an eye on how wet or dry they look. It works!
Let them cool and then eat up!
Orange Crinkle Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter – room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 large eggs – room temperature
- 1 Tablespoon orange zest
- 1 Tablespoon fresh orange juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar for rolling
Directions
- Step 1 Pre-heat your oven to 350-degrees.
- Step 2 In one bowl, whisk together your flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
- Step 3 In your mixing bowl, add your butter, orange zest, and white sugar.
- Step 4 Mix the butter, zest, and sugar until it’s light yellow and fluffy.
- Step 5 To the butter mixture, add your eggs one at a time. Mix until incorporated and then add your vanilla extract.
- Step 6 Once the eggs and extract are mixed well, add your flour mixture about 1/3 at a time.
- Step 7 Continue adding the flour mixture and mixing until you have a thick dough.
- Step 8 Refrigerate your dough for 30 minutes before the next step. It’s easier to handle the cookies if they’re cold.
- Step 9 After 30 minutes, get a plate with about 1/2 cup of powdered sugar for rolling your cookies.
- Step 10 You’ll use 2 tablespoons of dough for each cookie. Since the dough is so sticky, it helps to kind of coat your hands with powdered sugar, then grab a chunk of dough and roll it lightly into a ball. Then toss it into the powdered sugar and roll it around to coat it.
- Step 11 Place each round ball on a parchment-lined cookie sheet an inch apart.
- Step 12 Bake for 10-12 minutes. While they’re baking, the parts not covered in powdered sugar will look a little wet. When they look “dry” they’re done baking. You don’t want them to brown and you want them to stay soft, so just keep an eye on how wet or dry they look.
