Mandarin Orange Tea Cookies

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 5 Mandarin oranges
  • 2 tsp Orange, zest

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg
  • 1 Egg yolk

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 (icing sugar, powdered
  • 200 g All-purpose flour
  • 100 g White sugar
  • 1 White sugar

• Nuts & Seeds

  • 200 g Almonds, ground

• Drinks

  • 1 tbsp Orange juice, freshly squeezed

• Dairy

  • 150 g Butter

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Description

Directions

• Wash the oranges thoroughly under hot water and wipe with a towel. Cut into very thin slices (as thin as you can slice them and keep them in one piecand place on a doubled-up paper towel. Before placing on cookies, flip them over on to fresh paper towel to dry the other side a bit.
• In a bowl with an electric mixer, or the bowl of a stand mixer, beat softened butter with the egg until light and fluffy.
• Add ground almonds, sugar, flour and orange zest/juice and mix until dough comes together. Shape dough into two rolls, about 2-inches each in diameter and put into the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
• Heat oven to 350° (180C).
• Slice each log into cookies about 1/4-inch and place on a baking sheet. Using the bottom of a drinking cup with a bottom about 1 1/2-inches, dip bottom of glass in to a bowl of sugar and press in to cookies, making a small indentation. Brush the top of each cookie gently with the beaten egg yolk.
• Put one slice of mandarin orange in the indentation that you made on the top of each cookie. Sprinkle with more sugar and bake for 14-15 minutes. If youd like to brown up the cookies a bit, sprinkle with a bit more sugar over the oranges and place under the broiler for a few minutes.
• Remove cookies to a cooling rack to cool, then sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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