Tea cakes make the list for favorite holiday cookie. This melt-in-your mouth version is flavor-packed with orange and cranberries too.
Cranberry Orange Tea Cakes
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 50 min
- Servings 36
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sweetened dried cranberries
- 1 teaspoon Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup margarine or butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
- 2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 325° F. In small bowl, toss cranberries and 1 teaspoon flour; set aside.
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Step2In large bowl, beat margarine and granulated sugar with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon, until well blended. Beat in egg, sour cream, orange peel and orange extract until smooth.
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Step3Beat in 2 cups flour, the baking soda and salt on low speed until well blended. Stir in cranberry mixture. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
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Step4Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until bottoms are light golden. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Sprinkle tops with powdered sugar. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
Nutrition
70
Calories
3 1/2g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
10g
Total Carbohydrate
5g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 70
- Calories from Fat
- 30
- Total Fat
- 3 1/2g
- 5%
- Saturated Fat
- 1/2g
- 3%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 90mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 15mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 10g
- 3%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 5g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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