DARK CHOCOLATE ORANGE SHORTBREAD
Dark Chocolate Orange Shortbread are a chocolate lover's delight. Chocolatey with orange flavour, these cookies are ideal for Christmas. Gift them, serve them or enjoy them with your family.
Ingredients
- 2 cups plain flour all purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
- ½ cup sugar + 2tbsp
- 200 g soft butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp orange zest
- 2 tbsp fresh orange juice
- For decoration:
- sugar granules or sprinkles or chopped nuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Grease baking trays lightly with some butter.
- Mix sugar and orange zest together. Rub the zest into the sugar to release the essential oils.
- Sieve flour cocoa and salt together.
- Cream butter and sugar together till its creamy and fluffy.
- Add vanilla extract and orange juice.
- Mix well.
- Add the flour mixture and form a dough.
- Roll the dough to about a ¼" thickness using a cling film or parchment paper.
- Put the rolled dough in the fridge for 30 mins to chill.
- Cut the cookies into any shape you desire.
- Place the cookies on the prepared tray.
- Sprinkle with sugar, sprinkles or nuts.
- Bake for 12 -15 minutes or until edges become crisp.
- Remove the cookies from the oven. Allow them to rest on the sheet for 3-5 minutes.
- Remove the cookies from the sheet and let them cool on a wire rack.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
If the dough gets too hard add 1-2 tbsp of milk or orange juice.
Can drizzle the cookies with white glace icing or melted white chocolate.
Make the dough ahead and leave it wrapped in a cling film in the fridge till you are ready to bake the cookies.
Can drizzle the cookies with white glace icing or melted white chocolate.
Make the dough ahead and leave it wrapped in a cling film in the fridge till you are ready to bake the cookies.