orange spice sugar cookies

How To Make orange spice sugar cookies

• Step 1
  Beat the butter, sugar salt, Baileys Irish cream, and Amaretto together until smooth. (You can replace the Liquors with 2 teaspoons of vanilla if desired. Making the cookies kid friendly.)
• Step 2
  Mix in the egg yolk until combined well. Add the flour, orange zest, Cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. mix to combine.
• Step 3
  Add the flour,and beat until all ingredients are incorporated ,and a big ball forms. You can continue on ,and make the cookie dough my way,or you can simply roll dough out on a floured surface ,and cut shapes out to bake.
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  Step 4
  take ball of cookie dough,and divide in half. Make 2 circular logs from cookie dough. 2 inches in diameter. Wrap in plastic wrap,and refrigerate until stiff enough to slice.
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  Step 5
  Slice dough in to 1/8 inch wide slices,and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 325 degree's for 10 minutes,or until edges turn light golden brown.
• Step 6
  make white chocolate icing. Mix 1 cup of any color candy melts with 1/2 teaspoon of Amaretto,and 1/2 tsp Baileys Irish cream., or vanilla Add 1 tsp of shortening and microwave for 1 min. Stop microwave and stir every 30 seconds. Remove and stir again. Make sure the chocolate is melted. Add 1/2 teaspoon orange zest stir well. If you need a more liquid consistency. Just add a dash of milk.
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  Step 7
  Decorate cookies with icing. Put a small Dollop of icing on top of cookie. Place the almond slices on the icing. You may also frosty entire top with icing instead of adding almonds if desired.
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