Orange Cookies

Ingredients:

70 g butter
3/4 cup (75 g) caster sugar
2 tbsp orange zest
2 tbsp orange juice
1 ½ cup all purpose flour
1 egg

Method:

Preheat oven to 165 °C.

Line a large baking tray with parchment paper; set aside.

In a mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar till pale and crumbly.

Add-in orange zest and orange juice, stir to incorporate fully.

Stir-in flour, stir quick to mix.

Add-in egg and stir again till reach homogeneous dough.

Place dough into a plastic wrapper.

Wrap-up well and leave in fridge to cool for at least 30 minutes or up to few days till use.

Remove solid dough from fridge.

Place dough in between two large pieces of lightly greased plastic wrapper.

With rolling pin, roll out dough to about 1/4 inches thickness.

Remove the top layer of plastic wrapper and cut dough according with cookie cutter to the preference shape (if dough turn out to be too soft for shaping after sometime of preparing, return the dough to fridge for another 30 minutes or till set again).

Place cookies onto the prepared tray.

Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes or till golden brown and aroma.

Yields 80 cookies.