Chocolate Dipped Orange Butter Cookies
From krumkake 14 years ago
- 7 minutes to make
- Serves 48
More wedding reception cooking - I thought this one would be something different, with the orange flavor and the chocolate dip. It's full of flavor...if you like orange and chocolate together, you should like this one!
Ingredients
- cookies shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- ¾ cup butter, softened shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- ½ teaspoon orange extract shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 2 tablespoons grated orange peel shopping list
- 2 cups white flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking powder shopping list
- ½ teaspoon salt shopping list
- ½ cup finely chopped pecans, optional shopping list
- white sugar (for dipping the glass in to flatten the cookies before baking) shopping list
- glaze (I just melt an 8 ounce Hershey chocolate bar) shopping list
- 1 cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips, depending on your taste shopping list
- 3 tablespoons light corn syrup shopping list
- 4 tablespoons solid shortening (like Crisco – now trans-fat free) shopping list
How to make it
- For the cookies, beat together sugar and butter in a large bowl.
- Beat in the extract, egg and orange peel.
- Stir in remaining cookie ingredients until well mixed.
- Roll dough into 1” balls, and place them 2” apart on a lightly greased baking sheet (I found that a 1/2 tablespoon measuring spoon was the perfect size for "dainty" sized cookies).
- Flatten each ball with the bottom of a glass that has been dipped in white sugar.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes, just until the cookies begin to brown very lightly around the edges.
- Remove cookies from baking sheet and cool on racks or waxed paper.
- When cookies are cool, dip ½ of each cookie into the glaze and lay on waxed paper to allow the glaze to set up and harden; sprinkle glaze with chopped nuts, if desired.
- To make the glaze, place the chocolate chips in a narrow, deep microwaveable bowl (I use a 4 cup glass measuring cup for this); add corn syrup and shortening to bowl.
- Microwave glaze for 45 seconds; depending on the power of your microwave, and continue to microwave 15 seconds at a time until all the chocolate is melted. Be careful not to overheat the chocolate or you will end up with a grainy, hard blob of chocolate!!
The Rating
Reviewed by 9 people-
This sounds fantastic. Great post my friend and a very high 5.
chefmeow
in Garland loved it
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Oh, these are just the flavor combination to make me happy, happy happy!!!
notyourmomma
in South St. Petersburg loved it
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Fantastic...Thank you...:)
wynnebaer
in Dunnellon loved it
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