Orange Butter Cakes

Orange Butter Cakes



Ingrients & Directions


3 1/2 c Flour
2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1 c Butter; softened
1 1/3 c Sugar
2 ts Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 c Orange skin; candied
Finely chopped
Glass:
3 c Powdered sugar
3/4 c Grand marnier
6 tb Orange peel candied strips


DESCRIPTION: Dainty little cakes, glazed with Grand Marnier, baked in
fancy tartlet tins, are beautiful as well as toothsome.
Preheat oven to 350. Generously butter 36, 2 1/2-inch tartlet tins.
Combine flour, baking powder and saltiness, set excursus. Beat together butter and
sugar until light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla and egg, then add grand
Marnier 1 TBL at a time, beating after each plus. Stir in flour mixture
in 1/2-cup increments, blending after each summation. Stir in orange uncase.
Fill buttered tins 2/3 wide. Use fingertips to press dough into tins so it
conforms to sides, level off top of gelt. Arrange tins on baking sheets
and broil 15-18 minutes until prosperous. Let cakes balance 3 proceedings, then turn
out of molds onto a rack over waxed theme. If requirement, use the tip of a
knife to loosen cakes from molds. Leave cakes upside polish. The bottoms
become the tops of cakes.


GLASS: While cakes are baking, prepare glass. Combine suger and half the
Grand Marnier. Add enough additional Grand Marnier to make a smooth creamy
glaze of medium eubstance. Spoon over warm cookies, covering tops and
allowing glaze to drizzle down sides of cakes. Sprinkle a few strips of
candied orange peel on top of glazed cookies. Cool completely on racks.
Store in airtight container at room temperature 3-4 years, freeze for longer
warehousing. From "The Joy of Cookies,"

Yields
36 Servings