Sally'S Christmas Shortbread

Ingredients:
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons orange zest
- 2 tablespoons ground ginger
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- confectioners' sugar

Directions:
- Beat butter, brown sugar, orange zest, ginger and cloves until fluffy.
- Stir in baking soda and flour.
- Divide dough in half.
- Press into (2) 8" round ungreased baking pans.
- Bake in a 350 degree fahrenheit oven for 25 minutes or until the tops are dry and cracked, and the edges are slightly higher than the center.
- Cool in the pans for 5 minutes.
- Cut into wedges.
- Prick each wedge with the tines of a fork.
- Cool and dust with confectioner's sugar.
- Store tightly covered.