DAY 11: Chocolate Dipped Orange Shortbread Cookies
These are one of my very favorite cookies. Orange flavored not-too-sweet shortbread cookies dipped in dark chocolate.
The dough is shaped into a log, refrigerated until firm and then sliced into rounds to bake. And dipping only half the cookie keeps the fingers much cleaner than trying to dip the whole cookie!
RECIPE:
Chocolate Dipped Orange Shortbread Cookies
1 cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
½ tsp pure orange extract
1 tsp fresh orange zest
2 1/3 cups flour
4 oz bittersweet chocolate
4 oz semi-sweet chocolate
1 tsp coconut oil or shortening
Use a mixer to cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla and orange extracts and orange zest. Gradually blend in flour.
Roll the dough into a log about 2 inches in diameter. Wrap dough log in clear plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350°F. Remove dough from refrigerator and slice dough with a sharp knife into 1/4″ slices, reshaping dough into circles, as necessary. Place cookies onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. Remove immediately to wire rack to cool.
While cookies cool, heat chocolate and coconut oil (or shortening) in a double boiler. Dip half of each cooled cookie in the melted chocolate and place on parchment paper to cool.
(Recipe adapted from Smells Like Home)
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Oh wow – these look so good! The chocolate orange combo is always good 🙂
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Chocolate and orange is one of my favorite flavor combos!
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Hi Kelly, These look amazing. I love the chocolate-orange combo, always such a hit and perfect for Christmas too.
If you don’t mind, I’d love if you’d link these up (and any other dessert creations) on Sugar & Slice Sunday link party. Each week Sunday-Thursday.
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I was wondering, about how many cookies this makes?
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This makes about 3 dozen cookies, depending on how thick you slice them.
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Made these yesterday. Fantastic!!! Thanks so much for the delicious recipe!
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I’m a little (okay, a lot) late to the party, but I made these for Christmas this year, and they are definitely going to be one of my regulars from here on out! They reminded me a lot of the orange Milano cookies from Pepperidge Farms. Easy to make, and delicious in a slightly sophisticated sort of way. I shaped my dough logs into triangles just to have a variety of shapes on my cookie tray, since several of my other cookies were round.
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Glad you liked them. They are definitely a favorite around here, especially with the grown-ups. This year, I did them in squares for the same reason. I used an empty foil box lined with Saran-Wrap to get them shaped right.
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