Eggless Orange cookies
Soft and chew made with whole wheat flour, orange rind and orange pulp, these eggless orange cookies are so delicious that you can't stop at one.
Ingredients
1 cup = 200 ml
- 1 orange with peel
- 2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar of your choice we have used bura sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/4 tsp Baking soda
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Take an orange and wash it (obviously it's skin) very well.
- Remove the peel of the orange.
- Using a knife, scrub the white pith underneath peel of the orange.
- Cut the peel into thin strips and keep aside.
- Now remove the seeds from the orange.
- Place the orange in a grinder jar.
- Blend the orange into a puree and keep aside.
- Take a deep bowl and add butter and sugar in it.
- Blitz it to a creamy texture.
- Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, orange peel and orange puree.
- Bring everything together into a dough using hand but without kneading.
- Make small balls out of the entire dough and arrange on baking tray lined with greased butter paper.
- Place the tray in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Bake @180°C for 15-20 minutes on until edges turn slightly brown.
- Let them turn cool completely.
- Eggless orange cookies are ready.
Notes
Instead of orange pulp, you can use 1/4 th cup of fresh orange juice.
You may add few drops of orange food colour for giving the orange feel to the appearance of cookies.