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Soft and pillowy blood orange ricotta cookies are a citrus dream! Dipped in naturally pink blood orange glaze, you’ll love the melt-in-your-mouth texture. Recipe makes 28 cookies.
Imagine ethereal citrus clouds, and you come close to these blood orange cookies. Pillowy soft ricotta cheese adds a dreamy soft-baked texture that pairs beautifully with fragrant citrus zest.
Dipped in naturally tinted blood orange glaze, these melt-in-your-mouth blood orange ricotta cookies are all too easy to devour.
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Blood Orange Ricotta Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours 35 minutes (includes chilling)
- Yield: 28 cookies
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Description
Soft and pillowy blood orange ricotta cookies are a citrus dream! Dipped in naturally pink blood orange glaze, you’ll love the melt-in-your-mouth texture.
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 Tbsp blood orange zest
- 1 cup part-skim ricotta, at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp pure almond extract
- 1 large egg
Glaze
- 1 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 2 tsp blood orange zest
- 2 Tbsp plus 1 tsp blood orange juice
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter and sugar and blood orange zest in a large mixer bowl at medium speed light and fluffy. Mix in ricotta, vanilla, and almond extract, then beat in egg until combined. Reduce speed to low and gradually add flour mixture; beat just until incorporated. Cover dough and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or up to 2 days.
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Spray a medium cookie scoop lightly with nonstick spray; scoop 1 1/2-inch balls of dough and place two inches apart on prepared baking sheets.
- Bake cookies for 14 to 15 minutes, rotating pans halfway through, until pale golden and set. Cool for 3 minutes on baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- For the glaze, whisk together melted butter, salt, powdered sugar, blood orange zest, and juice in a small bowl. Dip tops of cookies into glaze and let set before serving. If not serving cookies immediately, store unglazed in an airtight container at room temperature and glaze just before serving.
These are perfect thank you! I only chilled them for an hour and a half but they still came out amazing. Thanks so much for this recipe!
Any suggested substitutes for almond extract? Vanilla extract?
Hi Jazzmin, you can either omit the almond extract with no substitution since the recipe already includes vanilla, or add a bit more vanilla extract if you prefer.