Orange Pecan Delights Food

ORANGE PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300ºF.
• Melt butter in heavy medium saucepan over low heat. Add orange peel, cinnamon, coriander, cloves and cayenne and stir until aromatic, about 30 seconds.
• Add pecans, then sugar and salt and stir to coat evenly. Transfer nut mixture to baking sheet.
• Bake until nuts are toasted, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes. Cool. (Can be prepared 3 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature).

PECAN DELIGHTS

Steps:

• In large saucepan, combine sugar, butter, syrup and salt.
• Cook over medium heat until all sugar is dissolved.
• Gradually add milk to mixture and mix well.
• Continue to cook until candy thermometer reaches 248°F, or firm ball stage.
• Remove mixture from heat and stir in vanilla.
• Fold in pecans.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls onto a greased sheet, or sheet lined with parchment paper.
• Chill drops till firm.
• Loosen from paper.
• Melt the chocolate and shortening together in the microwave or in a double boiler.
• Drizzle the chocolate mixture over each pecan cluster.
• Allow to cool completely.

ORANGE PECAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a medium bowl cream together the butter and sugar. Add both orange and vanilla extracts, mix well. Mix in the egg and stir well.
• In another medium bowl mix together well the flour and baking powder. Gradually add flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Stir in the chopped pecans and mix well to combine.
• On a ungreased cookie sheet drop rounded teaspoonfuls of cookie dough. Bake for approximately 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool cookies for 10-12 minutes or until cool enough to handle.
• In a microwavable bowl add the semisweet chocolate morsels. Microwave for 1 minute, stirring chocolate halfway through.
• Dip only the tops of cookies in the melted chocolate and let set on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper.

ORANGE PECAN DELIGHTS

Steps:

• cream butter and sugars.
• add eggs and rind and beat well.
• stir in the sour cream and blend in the sifted ingredients gradually.
• add the nuts and drop in rounded tspfuls on greased baking sheet.
• bake at 375* for 12 minutes.
• ice with orange icing.
• to prepare icing.
• mix all ingredients until of spreading consistency.2-3 minutes.

ORANGE PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, orange juice and zest. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in pecans. Shape dough into two 11-1/2-in. rolls; wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight. , Unwrap; cut into 1/4-in. slices. Place 2 in. apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 7-8 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

PECAN DELIGHTS

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine the first four ingredients. Cook over medium heat until all sugar is dissolved. Gradually add milk; mix well. Continue cooking until a candy thermometer reads 248° (firm-ball stage). , Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla until blended. Fold in the pecans. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto a greased or parchment-lined baking sheets. Chill until firm. Loosen from paper. , Melt chocolate chips and shortening in a microwave-safe bowl. Drizzle over each cluster. Cool.

ORANGE DELIGHT

Steps:

• Pour boiling water over jello and marshmallows. Stir until marshmallows melt. Set aside this mixture until cooled slightly.
• Cream the cream cheese and sugar; then add whipping cream. Whip until mixture is smooth and thick.
• Add jello mixture, drained pineapple and nuts. Pour into mold and chill.

ORANGE PECAN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Press prepared pie crust into a pie plate.
• Beat corn syrup, pecans, eggs, butter, sugar, orange juice, orange zest, and salt together in a bowl; pour into the pie crust.
• Bake until pie filling is set in the center, about 45 minutes.

ORANGE CRANBERRY PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• Add butter and sugar to a stand mixer and beat for 8-10 minutes until the mixture is pale in color, fluffy,and completely blended. The sides of the mixing bowl will need to scraped down on a couple of occassions to ensure all the butter and sugar is well blended.
• Add in the egg, milk and vanilla and mix well.
• Add the baking powder followed by the flour slowly to the mixture.Mix well.
• The quanity of the dough should be slightly over 3 cups.
• Place a generous cup ( one cup) of dough into a bowl and add in the orange zest. Mix the orange zest well into the dough.
• Add the cranberries, pecans into the remaining dough in the stand mixer bowl. Mix contents well. Add red food coloring to the dough to your preferred color.
• Remove the red cranberry dough from the mixer and divide it in half
• Line a loaf pan with parchment paper. Place one portion of the red cranberry dough into the pan and press it down by hand. Ensure that the dough is spread out to cover the bottom of the loaf pan.
• Place the orange dough on top of the red cranberry dough and spread out. Top off with the remaining red cranberry dough.
• Cover the loaf pan and refrigerate until the dough sets and becomes firm.
• After about 30 minutes the dough should be set well enough to roll out if you are planning on using a cookie cutter.
• Remove the dough from the pan lifting up on the parchment paper. Transfer the dough to your working area. Cut the loaf of dough in half lengthwise.
• slice the dough into about 1/4 inch pieces if planning on baking the cookies as squares.
• If a cookie cutter is going to be used to cut out a heart shape ( or any other shape), slice the dough into 1/2 inch slices.
• Roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch to use your cookie cutter
• Place cookies onto a parachment lined cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Check at 8 minutes and continue to bake as needed until the edges of the cookies begin to brown.
• Cool on a wire rack until completely cooled before applying the glaze ( icing)

ORANGE PINEAPPLE DELIGHT

Steps:

• Drain pineapple, reserving juice; set pineapple aside. Add enough water to reserved juice to equal 3/4 cup. In a saucepan, combine the pudding mix, milk powder, orange juice and juice mixture. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a full boil. Remove from the heat; stir in coconut extract. Cool for 5 minutes. Stir in marshmallows until melted. Fold in pineapple. Transfer to four individual serving dishes. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. Garnish with whipped topping and coconut.

ORANGE PECANS

Steps:

• Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Bring first 3 ingredients to boil in heavy large saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil 30 seconds. Stir in pecans. Spread pecans on waxed paper. Cool completely. Separate pecans if necessary. (Can be prepared up to 1 week ahead. Store in airtight container.)