Orange Wafers Recipes

ORANGE POPPY SEED WAFERS

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
• Combine flour, poppy seeds, and allspice in a bowl and set aside. Butter 2 heavy, large cookie sheets and set aside.
• Using a vegetable peeler, remove all the zest from the orange (only remove the orange part, not the bitter white pith). Save orange for another use. Place the granulated sugar and zest in a food processor. Process until peel is finely minced, about 2 minutes. Transfer the sugar-zest mixture to an electric mixer. Add 1 cup butter and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Add the flour mixture and mix slowly until combined into a soft dough.
• Using a small cookie scoop, place 1-inch high mounds 2 inches apart on cookie sheets and press cookie down using a spatula dipped in water.
• Bake until edges are light brown, about 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Make the glaze by combining the powdered sugar and cream in a bowl. Using a pastry brush, brush the glaze over the cookies and then sprinkle with poppy seeds. Let stand until glaze is hardened and not wet. Store in an airtight container.

ORANGE POPPY SEED WAFERS

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
• Combine flour, poppy seeds, and allspice in a bowl and set aside. Butter 2 heavy, large cookie sheets and set aside.
• Using a vegetable peeler, remove all the zest from the orange (only remove the orange part, not the bitter white pith). Save orange for another use. Place the granulated sugar and zest in a food processor. Process until peel is finely minced, about 2 minutes. Transfer the sugar-zest mixture to an electric mixer. Add 1 cup butter and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Add the flour mixture and mix slowly until combined into a soft dough.
• Using a small cookie scoop, place 1-inch high mounds 2 inches apart on cookie sheets and press cookie down using a spatula dipped in water.
• Bake until edges are light brown, about 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Make the glaze by combining the powdered sugar and cream in a bowl. Using a pastry brush, brush the glaze over the cookies and then sprinkle with poppy seeds. Let stand until glaze is hardened and not wet. Store in an airtight container.

ED HARRIS' MANDARIN ORANGE DESSERT

Steps:

• In a bowl, blend the first 3 ingredients by hand.
• In a buttered 8 inch square oven-prrof glass dish, place a layer of vanilla wafers.
• Cover the wafers with the orange mixture.
• Add a second layer of vanilla wafers.
• Cover with whipped cream.
• Sprinkle crushed vanilla wafer crumbs over the top.
• Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.
• Serve!

CHOCOLATE-DIPPED ORANGE WAFER COOKIES

Steps:

• In large bowl, beat all ingredients except pecans, chocolate chips and shortening with electric mixer on medium speed until well mixed. Stir in pecans.
• Place dough on 14-inch length of plastic wrap. Use wrap to shape dough into a roll, 12 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
• Heat oven to 375°F (if using dark or nonstick cookie sheet, heat oven to 350°F). Cut dough into 1/4-inch slices with sharp knife. On ungreased cookie sheet, place slices 1 inch apart.
• Bake 8 to 12 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• In small microwavable dish, microwave chocolate chips and shortening uncovered on High about 1 minute or until softened; stir until smooth. Dip half of each cookie into chocolate, allowing excess to drip back into dish. Place on waxed paper; let stand about 30 minutes or until chocolate is set.

ORANGE CINNAMON WAFERS

Steps:

• Blend together butter, sugar, and zest with a rubber spatula. Add egg white and stir until combined well. Sift together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt onto butter mixture and stir until flour is just incorporated. Chill dough, covered (or in pastry bag if using), until firm but not hard, about 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Pipe or drop 1/2-teaspoon mounds about 3 inches apart onto lightly buttered baking sheets and bake in batches until edges are golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool cookies on sheets until warm (about 2 minutes), then transfer to a rack to cool completely.

CANDIED-ORANGE WAFERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Beat together butter, sugar, zest, and vanilla with an electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low and beat in egg whites. (Mixture will look curdled.) Whisk in flour just until incorporated.
• Drop 4 rounded tablespoons of batter about 3 inches apart on a baking sheet lined with nonstick pad. Spread batter evenly into 4‚- to 5-inch circles with back of a spoon dipped in cold water. Bake cookies in middle of oven, turning sheet 180 degrees halfway through baking, until golden brown, about 10 minutes total.
• Cool cookies 30 seconds on baking sheet (to facilitate removal), then carefully remove cookies with a thin metal spatula and immediately drape over a rolling pin to create a curved shape. (If cookies become too brittle to drape over rolling pin, return to oven a few seconds to soften.) When cool, transfer cookies to an airtight container. Make more cookies in same manner, cooling and cleaning nonstick pad and baking sheet between batches.

ORANGE WAFERS

Steps:

• 1. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten egg, orange juice,and rind, then flour mixture.
• 2. Drop by teaspoonfuls on ungreased cooky sheet, flatten with bottom of glass dipped in sugar.
• 3. Bake at 375 degrees for about 7 minutes.

ORANGE BLOSSOM BALLS

Steps:

• 1. Crush vanilla wafers very fine. Mix with sugar
• 2. Add undiluted juice and nuts. Mix well.
• 3. Shape into small balls. Roll in coconut.
• 4. Store in airtight container in refrigerator.

ORANGE & LEMON WAFER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg, orange zest, lemon zest and extracts. In another bowl, mix flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture., Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto parchment-lined baking sheets. If desired, top with orange peel strips., Bake 6-8 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.