Cranberry Orange Cookies are the perfect cookie to serve up at any holiday party. They’re crunchy and a little chewy, and the Butter Cream Frosting is so delicious, it melts in your mouth.
Cranberry Orange Cookies
Fall is the perfect time to pick up baking. From cakes to cookies, I am all about that Fall baking.
It’s like the cooler weathers gets me excited for all things baked and these Cranberry Orange Cookies, are a must have!
They are sweet, colorful and the perfect amount of cranberry and orange flavors.
Want more of these yummy cookies? Check out the Lemon Blueberry Cookies and Pumpkin Sugar Cookies.
How to Make Cranberry Orange Cookies
Ingredients:
For The Cookies:
- 2 Sticks of Butter – softened
- 1 cup of Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon of Vanilla
- 1 Egg
- 3 cups of Flour
- 1 Tablespoon of Baking Powder
- 1 Heaping Tablespoon of Orange Flavoring
- Orange Food Coloring Gel
For The Frosting:
- 4 Tablespoons of Butter – softened
- 4 ounces of Cream Cheese
- 4 cups of Powdered Sugar
- Pink Food Coloring Gel
- Orange Food Coloring Gel
Directions:
In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, add the Butter, Sugar, Vanilla, Orange Flavoring, and Egg, and blend until light and fluffy.
Add several drops of the Orange Food Coloring Gel, until the desired shade of bright Orange is achieved.
In a separate bowl, add the Flour, and Baking Powder, and stir well to blend. Add the Flour a little at a time and mix on low to blend, until all the Flour is added. Remove the Whisk attachment, and use the paddle.
Continue to blend the Cookie dough until it’s completely blended and a smooth ball starts to form. Scrape down the mixing bowl as needed.
Line two cookie sheets with Parchment paper, and roll the cookie dough into small balls, about 1 inch balls, and place the balls on the Parchment paper.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes, or just until the cookies start to turn a light golden brown around the edges.
About half way through baking the cookies, check the oven, and the cookies may have started to crack a little.
Take a flat bottom glass, dip it in Sugar before lightly applying to each cookie – smash the cookies very gently, and slightly, making them a little flatter, and spread out a little more. This will give the cookies the crinkle look.
When the cookies are done, remove from the oven to a wire rack to cool completely. While cookies are cooling, make the Frosting.
In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, add the softened Butter, and Cream Cheese, and blend to combine. Add the Powdered sugar a little at a time, blending after each addition, until the Frosting is smooth and fluffy.
Divide the Frosting evenly into two bowls.
In one bowl, add a few drops of the Pink Food Coloring Gel, and stir to blend until the Frosting is bright Pink. If the Frosting thinned a bit add a Tablespoon of Powdered Sugar, and stir to blend.
In the other bowl, add a few drops of the Orange Food Coloring Gel, and stir to blend. If the Frosting thinned a little, add a Tablespoon of Powdered Sugar, and stir well to blend.
Using Plastic wrap (Glad wrap) tear off a piece about 10 inches wide, and place the Frosting length-wise in the middle of the plastic wrap; it will look like two long ribbons of Frosting.
Then, roll the plastic wrap around the Frosting, making sure to keep it long, or length-wise like a long ribbon.
Snip the end off of the Plastic wrap, on one end only, and place it in a Pastry bag with the large Star Tip.
Pipe the Frosting onto the cookies, using a swirl, and bring it up to a point.
Place a Cranberry on the top of each cookie.
Allow the Frosting to set or firm up a bit, about 30 minutes.
Serve, and Enjoy!
Cranberry Orange Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
For The Cookies:
- 2 Sticks of Butter – softened
- 1 cup of Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon of Vanilla
- 1 Egg
- 3 cups of Flour
- 1 Tablespoon of Baking Powder
- 1 Heaping Tablespoon of Goodman’s Orange Flavoring
- Orange Food Coloring Gel
For The Frosting:
- 4 Tablespoons of Butter – softened
- 4 ounces of Cream Cheese
- 4 cups of Powdered Sugar
- Pink Food Coloring Gel
- Orange Food Coloring Gel
Instructions
- In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, add the Butter, Sugar, Vanilla, Orange Flavoring, and Egg, and blend until light and fluffy.
- Add several drops of the Orange Food Coloring Gel, until the desired shade of bright Orange is achieved.
- In a separate bowl, add the Flour, and Baking Powder, and stir well to blend. Add the Flour a little at a time and mix on low to blend, until all the Flour is added. Remove the Whisk attachment, and use the paddle.
- Continue to blend the Cookie dough until it’s completely blended and a smooth ball starts to form. Scrape down the mixing bowl as needed.
- Line two cookie sheets with Parchment paper, and roll the cookie dough into small balls, about 1 inch balls, and place the balls on the Parchment paper.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes, or just until the cookies start to turn a light golden brown around the edges.
- About half way through baking the cookies, check the oven, and the cookies may have started to crack a little.
- Take a flat bottom glass, dip it in Sugar before lightly applying to each cookie – smash the cookies very gently, and slightly, making them a little flatter, and spread out a little more. This will give the cookies the crinkle look.
- When the cookies are done, remove from the oven to a wire rack to cool completely. While cookies are cooling, make the Frosting.
- In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, add the softened Butter, and Cream Cheese, and blend to combine. Add the Powdered sugar a little at a time, blending after each addition, until the Frosting is smooth and fluffy.
- Divide the Frosting evenly into two bowls.
- In one bowl, add a few drops of the Pink Food Coloring Gel, and stir to blend until the Frosting is bright Pink. If the Frosting thinned a bit add a Tablespoon of Powdered Sugar, and stir to blend.
- In the other bowl, add a few drops of the Orange Food Coloring Gel, and stir to blend. If the Frosting thinned a little, add a Tablespoon of Powdered Sugar, and stir well to blend.
- Using Plastic wrap (Glad wrap) tear off a piece about 10 inches wide, and place the Frosting length-wise in the middle of the plastic wrap; it will look like two long ribbons of Frosting.
- Then, roll the plastic wrap around the Frosting, making sure to keep it long, or length-wise like a long ribbon.
- Snip the end off of the Plastic wrap, on one end only, and place it in a Pastry bag with the large Star Tip.
- Pipe the Frosting onto the cookies, using a swirl, and bring it up to a point.
- Place a Cranberry on the top of each cookie.
- Allow the Frosting to set or firm up a bit, about 30 minutes.
- Serve, and Enjoy!
Nutrition information is a rough estimate only; actual values will vary based on the exact ingredients used and amount of recipe prepared.