Orange Almond Cookies Recipe (2024)

These Slice & Bake Orange Almond Cookies are soft in the center and crunchy on the edges! A flavorful and easy-to-make cookie with lots of orange aroma and ground almonds.

Ground almonds, orange zest, vanilla and coarse sugar make these slice and bake shortbread-like cookies so flavorful! Some slice and bake cookies are dry and boring but these orange cookies are exactlythe opposite!

These cookies will melt in your mouth and are so simple to make! Not as simple as my 4-ingredientNutella Cookiesbut still really easy.

What I really love about slice and bake cookies is that you can slice off however many cookies you want to make on that day and chill the rest of the dough in the refrigerator for a few more days until you’re ready to make the next batch of cookies. So easy!

These orange almond cookies are so simple to make! The part that takes the longest time is the chilling in the fridge. So these are perfect for days when you want to make many different cookies at once. Use the chill time to make another cookie recipe like myVanilla Crescent Cookiesor these yummyNutella Cookies.

The dough of these cookies is like shortbread or sugarcookie dough. It’s really easy! Just combine everything with a hand mixer or stand mixer. I’m using confectioners’ sugar instead of normal sugar to make these cookies more delicate and I’m adding ground almonds for more flavor and texture.

Orange zest, orange juice and a little bit of Grand Marnier add a nice flavor kick! If you can’t or don’t want to use Grand Marnier Liqueur, you can substitute with more orange juice.

Roll the dough into three logs and let them chill in the fridge for at least 4 hours. This isn’t optional! If you don’t chill the dough you can’t slice the roll and you will end up with not pretty looking cookies. So just be patient!

Roll the chilled logs in coarse sugar for a little bit of crunch and sliceeach log into cookies. Bake, decorate, done! Enjoy!

– Julia