Chocolate Orange Cookies
Most people either love chocolate & orange flavour combo or loathe it, I personally love it and can’t get enough of it. These cookies have a drier dough consistency than my usual cookie recipes, despite having an extra egg in them. It may be due to the demerara sugar I used as I wanted these to have a crunchy texture, so will trial them again using a different sugar but these still turned out great so I am posting the recipe anyway. If you use caster sugar or light golden brown sugar and your dough seems like a good consistency without the extra egg, then you should be good to leave it out. My dough was crumblier than a regular cookie dough and I needed to spoon amounts into my hand and roll into a ball to get them to stick, using the warmth of my hands. So, don’t worry if your mixture seems a little dry, they should still work out.
Ingredients
Makes 16 | 276 calories per serving
125g butter
200g demerara sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
25g cocoa
175g self raising flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
zest of an orange
50g chopped Terrys Chocolate orange
200g white chocolate chips
15 segments of Terrys chocolate orange
Method
Preheat oven to 180 Celcius and line 3 baking trays with greaseproof paper.
Cream the butter & sugar using a mixer until combined.
Add eggs & vanilla.
Add in your dry ingredients (flour, baking powder & cocoa).
Add in your zest with chopped chocolate & chocolate chips.
Spoon large tablespoons of the dough into your hands (it’s ok if it’s a little crumbly). Using the warmth of your hand roll the dough into 16 even sized balls.
Add no more than 6 balls per tray.
Bake for 10 minutes. Don’t worry, they won’t flatten all that much. Take the trays out of the oven and press a segment of chocolate on top of each cookie. This will flatten the cookie.
Return to the oven and bake for a further minute.
Take them out and allow to cool on the trays. If you try to move them when hot, they can fall apart.
