Crispy Clementine Cookies are delicious buttery, clementine infused cookies with a crispy sugar glaze. Perfect for Christmas and easy enough for kids to make with a little supervision.
Every Christmas since my twenties I have been baking these Crispy Clementine Cookies which I adapted from an orange based recipe in my mother’s old 1970 cookbook called Super Scoff.
I posted these cookies in my first year of blogging and looking back at the photographs I decided it was high time for a refresh as these cookies really deserve to shine.
Oranges and Clementines are an integral part of Christmas for me,
I remember as a child putting my orange peel over the flame of a candle just to enjoy the heady Christmasy aroma that mingled with smell of pine from the Christmas tree and the many candle decorations my mum used to make.
Not a year went by without blocks of oasis being bought and holly and pine fronds being gathered and made into arrangements with a candle and a bauble of two.
I don’t share my mum’s floristry skills but luckily the culinary genes were passed on!
So yesterday I baked a batch Crispy Clementine Cookies and popped them into our gold cherub adorned Christmas cake tin.
As soon as my daughter came home from school she saw the tin on the worktop and remarked that she remembered this tin as it last had some Crispy Clementine Cookies in it!
I told her to open it and you’ve never seen such a beaming smile. A glass of milk and a cookie were quickly devoured.
Later my son turned up in the kitchen and on seeing the cookies said “Yay, I love these” before tucking in!
Isn’t it great how food and memories can spread such joy.
In the past we used to put these biscuits into little home made cellophane bags (small roasting bags) and tied with a red ribbon along with a label for my kids’ teachers.
My daughter loved making the dough and cutting the shapes.
I also remember taking along a tin to my son’s toddler group mums’ meeting when we spent the evening wrapping presents and organising the group’s Christmas party.
So these Crispy Clementine Cookies have become a very important part of our Christmas tradition and I hope that when my kids eventually leave home they will carry on the tradition.
I do hope you bake these cookies this Christmas as they so simple and easy to make and the crispy sugar topping makes them extra yummy!
Do you bake biscuits at Christmas, do let me know in the comments!
More Christmas Cookie Recipes
I asked some fellow bloggers what they like to bake at this time of year and here are their ideas:
- Dark Chocolate & Peppermint Stars – Supper in the Suburbs
- Orange Chocolate Truffle-centred Cookies – Family Friends Food
- Christmas Butter Biscuits – Tin & Thyme
- Snow Cookies – Christina’s Cucina
- Danish Vanilla Wreaths – Fab Food 4 All
For old times sake here are a couple of pictures from my original post- you can see why they needed updating!
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Crispy Clementine Cookies
Ingredients
- 4 Grated zest of 4 large clementines or 1 orange & 2 clementines
- 140 g / 5 oz Butter
- 2 Eggs large separated
- 225 g / 8 oz Self raising flour
- 140 g / 5 oz Castor sugar
- Granulated sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 190°C.
- Grease 3 large baking sheets lightly with butter (you’ll need to bake in 3 batches). If you don’t have ample baking sheets then just wash up as you go along and re grease.
- 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 4mm thick.
- Cut out the cookies with Christmas shaped cookie cutters.
- Place cookies on baking tray allowing enough space for them to spread, brush with egg white and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
- Bake in the centre of the oven 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.
Tracy Nixon
With the kids off this week and the weather being so poor, I might give this cookie recipe a go!!! The kids love baking – just need to teach them how to clean up afterwards!
Camilla
It’s a great project for kids, my daughter loved making these:-)
Lisa Rowsell
They look, and sound really yummy. I think I’ll have to have a go at baking these very soon.
Sarah, Maison Cupcake
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
Thank you for letting my cookies pass the grade as they aren’t really a decoration:-)
Laura Loves Cakes
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
Thank you, I wasn’t sure whether to enter but saw the other cookies so gave it a go:-)
Ruth Crawford
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
Ah that’s fantastic, thank you so much for the feed back and I’m glad you enjoyed them:-) Have a Happy Christmas!
Caroline Taylor
These sound so good, really festive!
Camilla
Yes, so good that I’m going to have to knock up another batch! Thank you for stopping by – Happy Christmas:-)
Mich Piece of Cake
These cookies look yummy! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, Camilla! Have a wonderful time with your family.
Camilla
Aah, thank you Mich and have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with your family:-)
Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand
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
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!
Hannah@HomeBaked
Ooh, these look right up my street – thank you!
Camilla
Thank you for taking the time to comment as I know we are all so busy right now:-)
Javelin Warrior
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
Thank you Mark, it’s always a pleasure:-)