Dough:

• 1 oz. candied pieces of orange
• 3 oz. butter
• 3 oz. powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon orange zest
• 1 tablespoon orange liquor or juice
• 5 oz. flour
  Decoration:
  
• 5 oz. powdered sugar
• 2-3 tablespoon orange liquor or juice
• zest of 1 orange
• 2 oz. pistachio nuts in small chunks

Dough:
Cut candied orange in very fine slivers. Mix all ingredients for dough. Cover dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll out dough to 1/8 inch onto surface covered with some flour. Cut dough into bars of 2 x 1 inches. Put bars onto parchment lined baking sheet. Bake at 400 F for 10 minutes. Let bars cool

Decoration:
Mix powdered sugar, orange liquor and zest. Brush mixture onto bars and top with pistachio nuts. Let bars dry. (approximately 50 calories per piece).

For lemon bars:

Replace candied orange, zest of orange, and orange liquor with candied lemon, zest of lemon and lemon juice

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