joe randel's art dump

Today was baking day.  I made some of my annual mint chocolate pinwheel cookies and some orange chocolate cookies.  Mmmm tasty.

I think I’ll share with you one of those recipes.

CHOCOLATE ORANGE COOKIES

– 1 oz square of unsweetened chocolate or about a 1/4 cup of chocolate chips.
– 3/4 C. butter
– 3/4 C. sugar
– 1 egg
– 1 tsp vanilla
– 1 1/2 C. all purpose flower
– 1 tsp baking powder
– 1 medium orange

Preheat oven to 350F (175 C)

In medium bowl cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.  Beat in the egg and the vanilla.  In separate bowl combine the flower and the baking powder then add it to the creamed mixture.

Once the dough is well combined, pick it up and divide it in to two parts and put each part in separate bowls (use the bowl you used to mix the powder ingredients and your current one).  Zest the orange on to one of the half’s of dough and mix it in .  If you don’t have an orange zester you can use the small holes of a cheese grater.  Melt your chocolate (be careful not to scorch it) and add it to the other half mixing it in thoroughly.

Get your baking sheet ready (I generally bake with a sheet of parchment paper down to get a nice brown on the bottom of the cookies but that’s just me) and take a small amount from each mixture and roll it in to a 1 inch ball.  This will make neat white and chocolate patterns in your cookies.

Bake your cookies for about 8 min, checking at the 6 min mark to make sure they don’t burn.

Let cool and enjoy. ^_^

I took a pic of mine so you can get an idea of how they’ll look when they’re done.