To me Christmas and oranges are inseparable, so when I discovered a Crispy Orange Biscuit recipe in my mother’s Super Scoff cookbook it became my Christmas biscuit and had to be cut into festive shapes. The book was a collection of peoples favourite recipes from 1970 and was sold to raise money for the Warwickshire Association of Youth Clubs. This particular recipe which I have adapted slightly was submitted by a Mrs J Little of Shipston-on-Stour. I decided to ring the changes this year and use Clementines and so the Crispy Clementine Cookie was born! My daughter and I had great fun making these the other night as gifts for her teachers! A trainee teacher on Twitter said she’d be very happy to receive them as a gift from one of her pupils and my daughter said her teachers were all impressed that she’d baked for them!
My husband can’t keep his fingers out of the biscuit tin so I think I’ll be making a second batch before Christmas!
As these cookies are made from scratch I am entering them into Javelin Warrior’s Made with Love Mondays challenge. I am also entering them into Calendar Cakes Christmas challenge hosted by Dolly Bakes and Laura Loves Cakes.
So first you rub your butter & flour in together before adding sugar, grated rind & egg yolks.
Mix together to form a dough.
Roll out to 1/4″ thick.
Now cut out festive shapes.
Glaze with egg white and sprinkle with sugar before baking.
Cool for a few minutes before cooling on a rack.
Once cool store in an air tight container.
These cookies make lovely festive gifts!
Don’t tell anyone, but we didn’t have any cellophane bags so improvised using roasting bags!
- Grated rind of 4 large clementines or 1 orange & 2 clementines
- 140g / 5 oz Butter
- 2 Eggs, large separated
- 225g / 8 oz Self raising flour
- 140g / 5 oz Castor sugar
- Granulated sugar for sprinkling
- Pre-heat the oven to 190°C.
- Grease 2 baking sheets lightly with butter (you’ll need to bake in 2 batches).
- Sieve the flour and rub in the butter.
- Add the sugar and grated rind.
- Mix to a stiff dough with the egg yolks.
- Halve the dough and roll out to ¼” thick.
- Cut out the cookies with a 1 ½” cutter or Christmas shapes.
- Place cookies on baking tray allowing enough space for them to spread, brush with egg white and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
- Bake for about 7 – 10 minutes until slightly golden. Take care as they burn easily!
- Allow to cool for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- Then repeat process with the other half of the dough.
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Javelin Warrior
19/12/2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
These cookies are so cute and SOOO crispy! I love the addition of clementine to the recipe and I can almost taste the delicate citrus flavor. And feel them crunch
A wonderful addition for the holidays and thank you so much for sharing!
Camilla
19/12/2012 at 2:22 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Thank you Mark, it’s always a pleasure:-)
Hannah@HomeBaked
20/12/2012 at 4:55 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Ooh, these look right up my street – thank you!
Camilla
20/12/2012 at 5:01 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Thank you for taking the time to comment as I know we are all so busy right now:-)
Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand
21/12/2012 at 2:43 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
What a lovely Christmas present! Really thoughtful and creative. Lucky teacher I’d say
BTW, the roasting bag works really well – would never have known!
Camilla
21/12/2012 at 8:38 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Thank you Jacqueline. Yes it was far more satisfying than shopping for something and my daughter really enjoyed rolling the dough and cutting out all the festive shapes! Plus it was good to find something to do with my Aldi roasting bags which were laying redundant in the drawer!
Mich Piece of Cake
21/12/2012 at 4:15 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
These cookies look yummy! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, Camilla! Have a wonderful time with your family.
Camilla
21/12/2012 at 8:29 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Aah, thank you Mich and have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with your family:-)
Caroline Taylor
21/12/2012 at 11:26 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
These sound so good, really festive!
Camilla
21/12/2012 at 1:12 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Yes, so good that I’m going to have to knock up another batch! Thank you for stopping by – Happy Christmas:-)
Ruth Crawford
21/12/2012 at 1:23 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I made these with My toddler this morning, so easy and yummy! Her little friends are all getting a wee bag of cookies today! Thanks
Camilla
21/12/2012 at 1:38 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Ah that’s fantastic, thank you so much for the feed back and I’m glad you enjoyed them:-) Have a Happy Christmas!
Laura Loves Cakes
21/12/2012 at 7:07 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Such lovely little festive biscuits…and the clementine sounds delicious! Love the Christmassy shapes too…and I’d love to receive these as a gift! Thanks for entering Calendar Cakes this week
Camilla
22/12/2012 at 1:05 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Thank you, I wasn’t sure whether to enter but saw the other cookies so gave it a go:-)
Sarah, Maison Cupcake
02/01/2013 at 4:10 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I thought I’d already visited these but must have viewed on my phone and meant to come back later. They sound very festive! Thanks for submitting them to the cookie parade!
Camilla
02/01/2013 at 5:43 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Thank you for letting my cookies pass the grade as they aren’t really a decoration:-)