Orange Iced Cranberry Cookies

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
• 2 tablespoons orange juice
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups chopped cranberries
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel
• 2 -3 tablespoons orange juice

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375.
• 2 cream together the butter and sugars. add egg, orange peel, and orange juice, mix thoroughly.
• 3 in a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. add to wet ingredients, mixing only until combined.
• 4 stir in cranberries and nuts.
• 5 drop dough by tablespoonfuls, about 2 inches apart, on a cookie sheet. bake 12 to 15 minutes, and then cool on a rack about 30 minutes.
• 6 in a small bowl stir all icing ingredients until smooth. frost cookies. i like to put the icing into a small ziploc bag, snip off the corner, and pipe spirals onto the cookies.