A delicious gingerbread cookie with a hint of orange. These smell so good, you can't keep them a secret.
Ingredients
- butter: 1 cup (softened)
- ½ cups white sugar: 1 piece
- molasses: 1 Tbsp
- egg: 1 piece
- ¼ cups all-purpose flour: 3 piece
- ground cinnamon: 1 Tbsp
- ground ginger: 1 Tbsp
- ground cloves: 2 tsp
- ground cardamom: 2 tsp
- baking soda: 2 tsp
- orange juice: 0.25 cup
- orange zest: 1 Tbsp
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in the molasses and egg. Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and cardamom; stir into the creamed mixture alternately with the orange juice. Then stir in the orange zest.
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On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut out cookies with cookie cutters, and place them on an unprepared cookie sheet. Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, edges should be slightly browned. Cool cookies on wire racks.
