Orange-Walnut Butter Cookies

When you want elegant orange-flavored butter cookies packed with walnuts, this is the recipe for you.

• Calories: 201 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter
• ¾ cup white sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups self-rising flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons orange zest
• 1 tablespoon frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
• 24 walnut halves

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease cookie sheet.

Step 2

Beat butter until smooth. Add sugar and mix until fluffy. Mix in orange concentrate, orange peel and vanilla.

Step 3

Add flour and mix until dough comes together.

Step 4

Form 1 rounded tablespoon of dough into a ball. Place on prepared cookie sheet and flatten to a 2-inch round. Repeat with the remaining dough. Press 1 walnut half firmly onto each round.

Step 5

Bake about 12 minutes or until cookies just begin to brown. Remove to a rack and cool.