No Fail Recipe: Delicious Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies

Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies.

You can have Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies

1. It's of sugar.
2. Prepare of shortening.
3. It's of butter.
4. You need of eggs.
5. Prepare of AP flour.
6. Prepare of baking soda.
7. You need of baking powder.
8. Prepare of buttermilk.
9. You need of Juice from 3 oranges (about 1 cup).
10. Prepare of powdered sugar.

Grandma Overby's Orange Cookies step by step

1. Cream together sugar, shortening, butter (melted) and eggs in a large bowl..
2. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, buttermilk, and juice from 2 of the oranges. Sometimes I substitute orange juice instead of squeezed. Try 2/3 cup if you do. Mix well. The batter will be similar to heavy pancake batter..
3. Pre-heat oven to 365°F. Spoon out a large spoon of batter onto an ungreased cookie sheet. You can also transfer the batter to a measuring cup and pour them onto the tray..
4. Bake until edges are brown and centers spring back when touched..
5. FROSTING: mix juice from 1 of the squeezed oranges (1/2 cup oj) with powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon melted butter. Then zest the entire skin of an orange into the mixture and mix..
6. Frost while still warm..