Ginger Orange Shortbread
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These buttery spicy Ginger Orange Shortbread Cookies are terrific on their own or you can bump them up a notch with the addition of a creamy orange frosting to sandwich them together.
Cream together:
1 cup butter
½ cup powdered sugar (i.e. icing sugar or confectioners sugar)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoon molasses
Sift together:
2 cups flour
3 teaspoon powdered ginger
Fold dry ingredients into the creamed butter and sugar until a soft dough forms.
Roll the dough out to about a ¼ inch thick on a sheet of parchment paper and cut the dough into about 1x3 inch rectangles. Bake on a cookie sheet at 300 degrees F for about 25 minutes.
If desired sandwich together with orange frosting.
Orange Frosting
This frosting should be very stiff but spreadable. If you think it's too thick, you may add a few drops of milk at a time to bring it to the right consistency.
