Orange Carrot Cookies

These are Adam's Grandma's famous cookies. They are incredible! They are fun to make now with Easter coming up and with Spring being here.

Orange Carrot Cookies

Cookie:
1 cup Crisco
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup mashed cooked carrots
1 egg
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
pinch of salt

Frosting:
5 tablespoons orange juice
1-2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon grated orange rind (optional)
3- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar (As much as it takes to make the frosting thick enough to frost a cookie) 

Mix crisco and sugar together until creamed. Add egg and mashed carrots. Mix well. Add dry ingredients and extracts. Drop onto cookie sheet in medium sized spoonfuls. Bake at 350 degrees
12-15 minutes.  Frost the cookies with frosting when cooled.