Here’s a delicious recipe for Cardamom Shortbread Cookies with Orange Glaze 🍊✨
🍪 Shortbread cookies with Cardamom & Orange Glaze
🧂 Ingredients
For cookies:
- 1 cup (225g) butter, softened
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp ground cardamom
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
🍊 Orange glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2–3 tbsp fresh orange juice
- 1 tsp orange zest
- Optional: tiny pinch of cardamom
🔥 Instructions
1. Make the dough
- Cream butter + powdered sugar until light and fluffy
- Add vanilla and cardamom
- Mix in flour and salt until a soft dough forms
2. Shape & chill
- Roll dough into a log or flatten into a disk
- Wrap and chill for 30–60 minutes (important for clean slicing)
3. Bake
- Preheat oven to 170°C (340°F)
- Slice dough into rounds (or cut shapes)
- Bake for 12–15 minutes until edges are lightly golden
- Cool completely
🍊 4. Orange glaze
- Mix powdered sugar + orange juice + zest
- Stir until smooth and slightly thick
- Drizzle or dip cooled cookies
✨ Tips
- Don’t overbake—shortbread should stay pale
- Cardamom gets stronger after baking
- Add chopped pistachios for a fancy touch 🌿
If you want, I can also give you:
- Eggless version
- Ramadan-style spice variation 🌙
- Or bakery-style crunchy version vs soft melt-in-mouth version
