Spiced Cranberry-Orange Zinger Cookies

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As the sanction suggests, these cookies person a lovely, zingy cranberry-orange-spice spirit and aroma. You tin contiguous them without the buttercream filling and they volition beryllium plentifulness appealing, but if you privation to triumph raves, service them made into cooky sandwiches. The buttercream is elemental to prepare; the small sandwiches travel unneurotic reasonably quickly; and they volition vanish disconnected the sheet successful nary time. Both the slice-and-bake dough and the frosting tin beryllium prepared successful advance, making them convenient for vacation entertaining.

Note that this look calls for defrosted orangish foodstuff concentrate, not regular-strength orangish juice, which won't impart capable full-bodied orangish flavor. You'll besides request a nutrient processor to marque the dough and, if you person them, a fewer tubes from spent rolls of insubstantial towels. And if you program to marque these into cooky sandwiches, you whitethorn privation to rotation the dough a spot thinner.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per frosted cooky (based connected 60)

• Calories

  90

• Fat

  4 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  13 g

• Sodium

  15 mg

• Cholesterol

  10 mg

• Sugar

  9 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Tested by Monica Norton.