Orange butter cookies

Ingredients

150 gr. cold butter cut into cubes

2 spoons Sucra Diet

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

¼ teaspoon salt

Zest of a whole orange

Juice from half an orange

Preparation instructions

Put the butter in a bowl and whip manually

Add Sucra Diet and an egg and keep whipping

Add the dry ingredients and mix until unified

Add the orange zest and the orange juice and mix for half a minute longer

Divide the dough in two and form a cylinder out of each on a floured board

Cover each cylinder in saran wrap and freez for at least half an hour (it can be kept in the freezer for up to 2 mo.)

Preheat oven to 180ºC

Cover a baking tray with parchment paper

Take the cylinders out of the freezer and slice, with a sharp knife,  into cookies ½ cm. wide

Place the cookies on the tray and bake for about 15 min. or until golden.