Orange roll cookies
The roll cookies are made from a fluffy pastry with sour cream and a fruity filling of fresh oranges. They taste moist, soft and heavenly delicious. The cookies are also very aromatic and easy to make with this recipe. They are perfect as Christmas cookies, but are also tasty at any time of year.
Servings 17 cookies
Ingredients
for the dough
- 80 g butter room warm
- 80 g sour cream
- 100 g sugar
- 1 egg
- approx. 350 g flour
- 3 g baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
- 1 pinch of salt
- flour for the work surface
for the filling
- 1 organic orange
- 30 g powdered sugar
- 20 g cornstarch
for dusting
- powdered sugar
Instructions
Preparation of the dough
- Place softened butter, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl and mash with a fork.
- Add sour cream and egg and mix.
- Mix flour with baking soda.
- Add the flour mixture in portions to the sour cream butter mixture and knead briefly to form a very soft, non-sticky dough.
- Flatten the dough into a rectangle, wrap it in an airtight container and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Preparing of the filling
- Cut unpeeled orange into large pieces and remove the seeds, if present.
- Place the orange pieces with peel in a blender and puree until smooth.
- Add powdered sugar and cornflour to the orange mixture and mix.
Preparation of the orange roll cookies
- Roll out the dough on a floured work surface to a rectangle approx. 2 mm thick.
- Spread the orange filling evenly over the dough and roll it up.
- Place the orange-filled roll in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
- Use a sharp knife to cut the roll into slices approx. 1 cm wide and spread them out on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
- Bake the orange cookies in a preheated oven at 392 °F (200 °C) for approx. 15 minutes.
- Leave the orange roll cookies to cool and dust with powdered sugar.
Notes
- The amount of flour specified may vary. Only add as much flour mixture to the liquid mixture until you have a very soft, but no longer sticky dough.
- Only knead the dough briefly to a homogeneous consistency and never for too long. Otherwise the cookies could taste firm and not fluffy later on.
- You can adjust the amount of powdered sugar for the filling to taste.
- Chilling the roll briefly in the freezer makes it easier to cut into slices.
- Depending on the size of your orange roll cookies, the baking time specified may vary. If you have made small cookies, they may be ready after just 10 minutes baking time.
- After baking, the roll cookies are very soft and tender, but become firmer after cooling.
- You can dust the orange roll cookies with a mixture of powdered sugar and cinnamon.
- Take note of the detailed tips and tricks for making the orange roll cookies at the top of the article.