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Dark Chocolate Orange Shortbread Cookies

These chocolate orange shortbread cookies melt in your mouth and are made with only a few simple ingredients. They are infused with orange flavor, then drizzled with melted dark chocolate and sprinkled with more orange zest. They make a delicious holiday cookie everyone will love!

Ingredients

  • ½ cup (113.5 g) unsalted butter, softened
  • ¾ cup (90 g) powdered sugar
  • 1 tbsp (½) orange zest, plus 1/2 tbsp more for garnish
  • 1 cup (120 g) all purpose flour
  • cup (28.67 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon (0.25 teaspoon) kosher salt
  • 4 ounces (113.4 g) dark chocolate, melted, for drizzling over baked cookies

Instructions
 

  • Creamed mixtured of butter, sugar, and orange zest in a bowl.
    In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, add the 1/2 cup butter, 3/4 cup sugar, and 1 tbsp orange zest, and beat on low-medium speed until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
  • A disk of chocolate cookie dough.
    Add the 1 cup flour, 1/3 cocoa powder, and 1/2 tsp salt, and mix until a dough forms about 1 minute. Shape the dough into a disk and wrap in parchment paper. Chill for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
  • Prepare 2 sheet trays with parchment paper and preheat your oven to 325° F.
  • Chocolate cookie dough rolled out on a piece of parchment paper.
    Roll out the chilled dough into ¼’’ thickness between 2 pieces of parchment paper and using a 2-3 inch cookie cutter, cut out the cookies.
  • Chocolate cookie dough slices on a sheet tray.
    Place the cookies on the sheet tray and bake for 11-12 minutes. If the cookies are hard to peel off, chill them for a few more minutes before transferring to the baking sheet.
  • Chocolate cookies on 2 white plates .
    Cool the cookies. Melt the 4 oz dark chocolate in a small microwaveable bowl, about 30 seconds at a time until fully melted. Drizzle on the cookies and sprinkle with more orange zest.

Notes

Keep the dough cold to make it easier for the cookies to be cut out and lifted onto the baking sheet.
 
Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 148kcal, Carbohydrates: 16g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 9g, Saturated Fat: 6g, Cholesterol: 15mg, Sodium: 39mg, Potassium: 86mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 7g, Vitamin A: 177IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 10mg, Iron: 1mg
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