Spiced Orange-Oatmeal Cookies

Name: Spiced Orange-Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients: ¾ cup (packed) light brown sugar; ¾ cup vegetable shortening; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1½ cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 eggs; ¾ cup granulated sugar; 3 tablespoons finely grated or chopped orange rind (colored outer layer only, no pith); 2 tablespoons frozen concentrated orange juice, thawed but undiluted; ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg; 2½ cups regular (not quick-cooking) rolled oats; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ teaspoon ground allspice

Preparation info

Makes
4
maximonster cookies about 9 inches in diameter cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs. Witty's Monster Cookies

By Helen Witty

Published 1983

About

Blend a harmony of citrus and spice with a crunch of oats, and you have an intriguing cookie to bake in large or small rounds. Unlike some oat cookies, this one doesn’t shatter easily after baking, so you can go for the maximonster size.

Ingredients

¾ cup vegetable shortening
¾ cup (packed) light brown sugar
¾ cup</

Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F, with an oven rack in the center position. For the larger cookies, cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil and grease the foil lightly; you’ll need another sheet of greased foil for each batch following the first. If you are making