Prize-Winning Recipe 2006! Orange, mascarpone cheese and a dip in white chocolate are the flavor secrets to this delicious cookie.
Orange-Spice Drops
- Prep Time 1 hr 5 min
- Total 2 hr 5 min
- Servings 36
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- 1/3 cup mascarpone cheese or 1 package (3 oz) cream cheese
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
- 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 egg
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- 2 cups white candy melts, coating wafers or white vanilla baking chips (12 oz)
- Edible orange glitter, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat cookie mix, cheese and butter with electric mixer on low speed until well mixed. Add orange peel, orange juice, pumpkin pie spice and egg; beat until thoroughly mixed.
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Step2Using small cookie scoop, shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll balls in pecans. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls 2 inches apart.
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Step3Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely.
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Step4In small microwavable bowl, microwave candy melts uncovered on High 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted and stirred smooth. Dip each cookie halfway into melted candy, letting excess drip off. Place on waxed paper until almost set. Sprinkle dipped half of each cookie with edible glitter. Let cookies stand until candy coating is completely set, about 1 hour. Store between sheets of waxed paper in tightly covered container.
Nutrition
150
Calories
8g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
18g
Total Carbohydrate
12g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 150
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 12%
- Saturated Fat
- 3 1/2g
- 18%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 65mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 25mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 18g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1 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 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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