Sunny Slices

Total Time: 37 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon orange zest, grated
• 2 teaspoons orange juice
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• orange decorator sugar

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, using an electric mixer , beat together 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar and the butter until light and fluffy.
• 2 add eggs , mix well.
• 3 stir in orange zest and orange juice. blend well.
• 4 in a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt;mix well.
• 5 stir flour mixture into butter mixture until a dough forms.
• 6 cover bowl with plastic wrap and pop in the fridge for an hour , or up to overnight.
• 7 preheat oven to 400*.lightly grease 2 large baking sheets.
• 8 place remaining sugar in a shallow bowl. roll dough into 1" balls and roll them in sugar. place approximately 1" apart on cookie sheets. flatten balls with bottom of a glass.
• 9 bake cookies until edges just begin to brown, about 7 minutes. transfer cookies to wire racks, cooling completely.
• 10 meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine confectioners sugar and lemon juice. place icing in a pastry bag fitted with a writing tip. pipe orange slice pattern and seeds onto cookies. let dry.
• 11 pipe icing around edges of cookies. roll edges in orange decorating sugar. let dry completely.
• 12 i also would like to say i totally cheated on the ones in the photo as far as icing goes! i bought the icing in a decorating can. i do not recommend this. the pressurized can makes it impossible to get a straight line. i ended up squirting all the frosting into my pastry bag. lol.