White Beer Cookies

Ingredients:

Cookies:

  • 2 bottles (12 oz. each) Belgian-style white beer
  • 5 tbsp honey
  • 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 medium orange, zested
  • 2 tsp ground coriander
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda

 

Icing:

  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tbsp orange juice
  • 1 tbsp whole milk
  • 1 orange, zested

 

Directions:

Cookies:

  1. Combine beer and the honey in a medium saucepan over medium heat and reduce until 1/3 cup of liquid remains, making sure to skim  foam off the top of the liquid and discard during the reduction.
  2. While your reduction is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together.
  3. Add the egg and blend the mixture together.
  4. Then add vanilla, orange zest, coriander, and the beer reduction. Blend together.
  5. Whisk the flour and baking soda together in a separate bowl and slowly add it to the batter. Mix until just blended.
  6. Scoop mounds of cookie dough onto an aluminum cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, fitting about 12 cookies on a pan.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 16 - 20 minutes, letting the cookies cool for about 10 minutes, then moving them to wire racks to finish cooling.

Icing:

  1. Begin by whisking the vanilla into the powdered sugar.
  2. In a separate bowl, mix the orange juice and milk together.
  3. Then pour the orange juice/ milk mixture into the sugar, until you reach your desired consistency of a thick paste.
  4. Make sure your cookies are completely cooled! Using a butter knife, put a dollop of icing on each cookie and spread it a bit over the top. Then place a small piece of orange zest on top of the cookie as garnish.
  5. Let the icing harden a bit and enjoy!
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