Baking in Comics (The Christmas Special)

Now baking and comics really have nothing in common, so this isn't so much a Christmas Special, and just the only special case I know.

This year for a Christmas Special, DC put out a Green Lantern Larfleeze Christmas. This past year brought about the creation of the color spectrum of Lanterns.  Now, not only is there a Green Lantern, but Red, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Pink, Indigo, White, and Black.  Each one represents some other "emotion" (that pretty much means any but Green, Black, and White).  Red is rage, Blue is hope, Pink is love, Yellow is fear, etc.

That brings us to the Orange Lantern, Larfleeze, on the cover.  Orange is the color of avarice, and so Larfleeze only wants things, and anything he can get his hands on, so this story deals with how much Larfleeze is looking forward to Santa visiting him and giving him everything he ever wanted.  Of course when Santa doesn't show, he gets angry and starts trying to hunt him down until finally the Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, finds him and tells him the truth about Santa.  In the end its a simple and fun Christmas tale that was a surprise holiday story, because most of them generally are boring.

Now back to the baking part of this.  Larfleeze left special Orange Lantern cookies for Santa.  I'm not sure I have ever seen a recipe pop up in a comic book before, but this year, this Christmas, there is was.

Cookies

¼ cup butter (softened)
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons of orange juice concentrate (thawed)
1 teaspoon of orange zest
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 ½ cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
A dash of salt
½ cup white chocolate chunks

1) Preheat your earth-oven to 350 degrees

2) In a big bowl beat butter, sugar, brown sugar, orange juice concentrate and orange zest. Then add egg and vanilla until it looks delicious.

3) In a small bowl stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda and dash of salt together.

4) Add the small bowl to the big bowl and stir until smooth. Mix in white chocolate chunks.

5) Drop small balls of dough across a greased cookie sheet.

6) Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until golden brown.

7) Let the cookies cool as you mix the frosting

Frosting
2 tablespoons orange concentrate (thawed)
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons butter (softened)

1 ½ cups powdered sugar

1) Mix all of the above until it looks like frosting!

2) Spread the frosting across cooled cookies (it will melt otherwise!)

Makes approximately two dozen cookies  or one serving ENJOY!

This the symbol for the Orange Lantern, and this is the shape he draws in orange over the white frosting.

I'm just curious how these would taste now. Lots of orange, so guess you better like that.