Orange Julius Cookies
from Plum Pudding Murder novel by Joanne Fluke
Ingredients
- 2¼ cups flour (don't sift—pack it down in the cup)
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- 2 sticks (8 ounces, ½ pound) softened butter
- ½ cup white (granulated) sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 beaten egg
- 3 tsp grated orange zest (that's the orange part of the peel)
- *optional the juice of half the orange
- 12 oz bag white chocolate morsels (2 cups)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position.
- Prepare your cookie sheets by using a nonstick silicone baking mat or by spraying them with Pam (or another nonstick cooking spray.) You can also use a parchment-lined cookie sheet if you prefer.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt and baking soda. Stir well and set aside.
- In another bowl, beat the softened butter, white sugar, and brown sugar.
- Add the beaten egg to the bowl with the butter and the sugars. Stir it all up.
- Then stir in the grated orange zest.
- Stir in the flour, salt and baking soda mixture and mix well.
- Stir in the white chocolate chips.
- Drop by teaspoonfuls on a prepared cookie sheet, 12 cookies to a standard size sheet. Flatten the cookies in a crisscross pattern with a fork, the way you'd do for peanut butter cookies.
- Bake the cookies at 350 degrees F. for 10 to 12 minutes. (Mine took 11 minutes.)
- Leave the cookies on the cookie sheet for a minute or two, and then remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Yield: 5 to 6 dozen cookies, depending on cookie size.
- Hannah's Note: Delores thinks these cookies taste just like the drinks from the Orange Julius stand at the mall.