Sponge Drop Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir 1/2 cup orange juice and 1 teaspoon rind into the flour mixture.
• Cream shortening and white sugar together. Mix egg into the sugar mixture thoroughly. Slowly blend flour mixture into the egg and sugar mixture. Drop by teaspoonful onto greased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
• Make the icing: Mix confectioner's sugar and 2 tablespoons butter together until smooth. Pour 2 tablespoons orange juice and 1 teaspoon orange rind into the sugar and butter mixture, mix well. When the cookies have cooled spread the icing generously over the tops of the cookies.

Steps:

• Beat the whole eggs until thick and light.
• Add milk and lemon extract and beat in sugar.
• Add flour which has been sifted with the baking powder and salt.
• Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit the cookie sheet.
• Drop or shape about the size of a quarter with a pastry tube on the parchment paper or buttered cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes depending on your over. Yield about 6 dozen cookies.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Lightly coat 2 cookie sheets with vegetable cooking spray.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
• Beat egg yolks with extracts in a mixer bowl until pale and thick.
• In a clean mixer bowl, with clean beaters, beat egg whites to soft peaks.
• Beat in sugar 1 T. at a time, until stiff and glossy.
• Gently fold egg yolks into egg whites.
• Fold in dry ingredients until just blended.
• Drop by level tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake 10 minutes or until golden.
• Carefully transfer to wire racks to cool completely.