In the Bleak Midwinter
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
Leaping from poetry and carols to baking, via the snowflake in window number six of today’s Advent Calendar, are some wonderful Christmas Orange Cookies that I baked courtesy of the Baking Mad website and Nielsen-Massey’s pure Orange extract. I was recently sent some of this amazing extract to try out and review ~ it’s simply an explosion of oranges in a bottle, quite divine……and with a scent that is synonymous with the season’s spicy and citrus baking.
Pure Orange Extract
(Baking Mad)
Another reason I wanted to try this recipe, which I have had my eye on for a while, was the chance to use my snowflake biscuit/cookie cutters for the first time this Christmas baking season, as well as some liberal use of edible glitter…….as is required for this time of year!
These biscuits/cookies were delicious, the orange extract added an exotic flavour and I LOVED the addition of the cardamom and cinnamon, they added a very festive touch to this recipe, which, was very easy to make and great fun to decorate.
If you want to try a new biscuit/cookie recipe this year, do give this recipe a go, it is easy and subtly flavoured with the very essence of the Festive season, plus the orange extract really helps to lighten the richness of the buttery base. You can find the recipe on the Baking Mad site here:
Christmas Orange Cookies
hosted by the lovely Vanessa!
I am also entering them into
Tea Time Treats for December
Hosted by the lovely Kate
this month!
I am also entering these into Becky’s FABULOUS
Big Christmas Bakeoff
Oh how pretty! love these beautiful cookies. Im enjoying your advent treats very much 🙂
Karen, what pretty cookies. I have the same cutters so may just copy you, they are delightful. Jude x
Your cookies are beautiful Karen. I love using the edible glitter too! Expensive, but a little goes a very long way. xxoo
well I am deeply offended!… just because its Christmas you think you can simply go ahead and bake something glorious and so pretty like this… disgusting… and if it wasn't for my obsessive compulsive disorder and my need to see numerical blog posts through to their inevitable conclusion, I would never come back here again!
I was listening to that Carol on Saturday afternoon in my local Cook Shop (the Carol is one of my favourites) – they have some beautiful things – wish I had seen some cookie cutters like these, I'll have to go back for another look.
They're gorgeous! I did a spiced version last year & iced them with fondant… they vanished into thin air.
Ohhh I would like to dip the one side in dark chocolate – they look delicious!
Hugs
Cxxx
Great Christmas cookies. So beautiful looking. Love the poetry of Christina Rossetti.
Hmm….now I need new cutters, edible glitter and orange extract!
I've gotta dash…. ;D
Hmm….now I need new cutters, edible glitter and orange extract!
I've gotta dash…. ;D
Oh these look gorgeous. Glitter is definitely a must. Must try the orange blossom water. I also need to get some snowflake cookie cutters asap.
The cookies look fabulous! I need some snowflake cutters. And some orange extract, as well, it seems. Well, that'll give me something to buy with my Christmas money!
So pretty! I love the cut-outs. The orange extract addition would taste great!
The cookies look gorgeous, sound divine and I have just bookmarked this page. That orange extract sound rather good too.
Beautifl cookies! I love that they are so white and also orange-flavoured 🙂
I missed these at Christmas but they look so lovely I’ll come back to the recipe next Christmas.
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