12/22/2025
🍊 Orange Cranberry Meltaways
By Ruth Zella
INGREDIENTS:
Cookie dough:
🥣 1 cup dried cranberries
🧈 1 cup butter, room temp
🍚 1 cup sugar
🍊 Zest of 1 large orange
🥚 1 egg
🍾 2 tsp vanilla extract
🍾 1/2 tsp almond extract
🌯 3/4 tsp baking soda
🍚 2 1/2 cups flour
Glaze:
🍚 1 1/4 cup Icing sugar
🍊 2-3 Tbsps orange juice
DIRECTIONS:
🥣 Prepare the cranberries. If the cranberries are really dry, place into small bowl with warm water.
🥣 Soak for 15 minutes. Drain and towel dry before using
🥣 In the stand mixer, whip butter
🧈 Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, 2-3 minutes
🥣 In small bowl, add eggs, vanilla and almond extract
🥣 Add to butter mixture: egg mixture and orange zest. Incorporate until creamy
🍚 Sift flour and baking soda together and whisk
🥣 Mix in dry ingredients slowly with wet ingredients
🥣 Fold into dough cranberries
🥣 Using small cookie scoop, scoop dough and roll into dough balls
🍚 Roll dough balls in white sugar and place on prepared baking sheets, leaving 2” space between dough balls
⏰ Bake at 375F for 8-11 minutes, or until edges are slightly brown
🍪 Allow cookies to set on the baking sheet for at least 5 minutes before placing them in a cooling rack
🍊Once the cookies are completely cooled. Drizzle orange glaze over cookie.
🍊Allow glaze to completely harden before placing into an airtight container
Orange Glaze:
🥣 Whisk together glaze ingredients to desired thickness
🥣 Place glaze into icing piping bag to have a nice even drizzle. (You can also dunk the cookies into the glaze.)
