“I make these cookies each year at Christmas. They are a favorite of family and friends. This recipe makes approximately 120 cookies.” - by LMV5853
Ingredients
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Original recipe yields 10 dozen cookies
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Whisk flour, white sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and salt in a large bowl. Stir orange zest into flour mixture. Mix vegetable shortening and margarine into dry ingredients, using your hands, until mixture is crumbly.
- Beat eggs and vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until foamy; add egg mixture, 1/4 cup orange juice, and 1/4 cup milk to flour mixture and knead dough in the bowl until thoroughly combined and dough doesn't stick to your hands, about 8 minutes. Dough will be stiff. Knead cream cheese thoroughly into dough, followed by walnuts.
- Form dough into balls about 1 1/2 inches in diameter and place onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake cookies in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 12 to 14 minutes. Cool cookies on racks.
- Beat 3 tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon orange juice, and 1 cup confectioners' sugar in a bowl until smooth; gradually beat in remaining confectioners' sugar until frosting is thick and drizzles slowly from a spoon.
- Dip tops of cookies into frosting and place frosted cookies on racks with waxed paper underneath to catch drips. Let cookies dry overnight.
Nutrition
Amount Per Serving (120 total)
- Calories
- 78 cal
- 4%
- Fat
- 2.7 g
- 4%
- Carbs
- 12.8 g
- 4%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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"these were by far the best cookies ever. the frosting was very rich an indulgent!!!!!!!..." See more"
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