Salted Nighttime Chocolate Orangish Shortbread Cookies

Dark chocolate. Sea tabular array salt flakes. Orange zest. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 shortbread cookie base. Combine these things too you lot larn a cookie that’s super flavorful, totally crave-worthy, too deserving of the longest mention for i of my recipes yet (oops!).

The orangish is amazingly-tasty but it too gives that fiddling boost of Vitamin C that nosotros thus desperately take this fourth dimension of year. I mean, going on a opor-garai to Florida would likely live a lot to a greater extent than effective, but hi if eating these cookies is what I convey to do, I’ll brand the sacrifice.

Ahh, hold back at those beauties.

The nighttime chocolate is thus skillful – I considered dunking the ENTIRE cookie inwards it for a consummate coating – but I resisted. Mainly, thus they would hold back fancy. The things I exercise for you, my food-loving cyberspace friends 😊.

Ok, confession time. I had never made slice-and-bake cookies earlier this – eek!

But, I am hither to order you lot that they are AMAZING too super slow too you lot definitely take to convey slice-and-bake cookies inwards your cookie-recipe repertoire. It was high fourth dimension I added them to mine.

Basically, these involve making dough (easy thus far!), rolling said dough into 2 logs (you tin totally grip this!), freezing cookie dough logs for i hr (patience, friends, that is real the difficult purpose here), rolling them inwards simply about cane carbohydrate for that amazing texture too baking them!

I won’t forget the most of import pace – dunking the cookies inwards melted nighttime chocolate, sprinkling amongst orangish zest too ocean salt, too devouring them! YUM.

These are a smashing make-ahead cookie. Christmas, inwards particular, comes to hear equally an occasion for which this technique would live perfect but I’ve clearly missed the boat on that one.

No worries though – these are nonetheless perfect to stash inwards your freezer for simply about fresh-baked cookies whenever you lot fancy!

 

Happy baking! ❤

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Salted Dark Chocolate Orange Cookies

Slice-and-bake shortbread cookies, dipped inwards melted nighttime chocolate too topped amongst a generous sprinkle of orangish zest too ocean salt!

Course

Cookies

Cuisine

Dessert

Keyword

Cookies

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Dough Chilling 1 hour

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 2 dozen cookies

Calories 171 kcal

Author Stephanie Simmons

Ingredients

• 
  3/4
  cup
  butter
  


• 
  2/3
  cup
  brown sugar
  


• 
  2
  eggs
  1 for egg wash
  


• 
  1 1/2
  tsp
  vanilla
  


• 
  2
  cups
  flour
  


• 
  1/4
  tsp
  nutmeg
  


• 
  Pinch
  of cinnamon
  


• 
  Pinch
  of salt
  


• 
  2
  oranges
  2 TBS juice + the zest
  


• 
  Coarse sugar
  I used cane carbohydrate to gyre dough in
  


• 
  8
  ounces
  good character nighttime chocolate
  


• 
  Flaked ocean salt
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Microwave the butter for twenty seconds, to soften. Mix amongst electrical mixer until creamed. Add the chocolate-brown carbohydrate too trounce until creamed. Add ONE egg (the other is for egg wash) too the vanilla too mix until simply combined.
   
   


2. 
   
   Take the zest from i orangish too add together it to this mixture. Juice the same orangish too add together 2 tablespoons to the butter/sugar mixture too mix.
   
   


3. 
   
   In simply about other bowl, add together the flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, too tabular array salt too whisk together. Slowly add together the dry out element mixture into the moisture ingredients, mixing betwixt additions. I normally exercise this inwards thirds.
   
   


4. 
   
   Separate the dough into 2 equal-ish parts, too gyre them into logs. Mine were virtually ix inches long past times three inches broad (doesn't convey to live precisely those measurements, though). Wrap inwards plastic roll - tightly - too gear upward them on a cookie sheet. Place inwards the freezer for i hour.
   
   


5. 
   
   After the hour, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Beat the 2d egg for the egg launder too lightly brush over the 2 cookie dough logs (plastic removed, obviously). Roll the dough logs inwards coarse carbohydrate (use a plate or something like for this, non your counter, to avoid extra mess). Slice into equal-sized cookies (see pictures to larn an thought of how thick mine were).
   
   


6. 
   
   Bake on a parchment-paper lined cookie canvas for 14-16 minutes. The edges should simply live starting to chocolate-brown slightly. Let cool on the cookie canvas for v minutes, thus transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
   
   


7. 
   
   Zest the other orange. Melt your nighttime chocolate too dip cookies halfway inwards it (although a total dunk is quite tempting!). Immediately sprinkle the nighttime chocolate percentage of the cookie amongst a fiddling ocean tabular array salt too orangish zest. Do this earlier the chocolate cools or it won't stick. Enjoy!
   
   


8. 
   
   NOTES: Don't worry virtually baking "frozen cookies" - they won't live totally frozen later exclusively an hr inwards the freezer. You tin shop these, wrapped inwards plastic roll too sealed within an airtight container, for upward to 2 months inwards the freezer. If you've left these inwards the freezer for quite a chip longer than an hour, permit them sit down at room temperature to warm for a few minutes, or for a few hours inwards the fridge earlier slicing them.
   
   

 

Source: bluebowlrecipes.com