Cookies

Chocolate Topped Orange Morsels

Orange butter cookies with easy decorative chocolate topping. Simply place a chocolate chip on a hot cookie fresh from the oven. Then, use the point of a toothpick to drag melted chocolate across the top to give it a drizzled-on appearance.

Servings

8 dozen

Level

Easy

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) Challenge Unsalted Butter
  • 1½ cups sugar
  • 1 Tablespoons finely chopped or grated fresh orange zest
  • 1 egg
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ cup fresh orange juice
  • ⅓ cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • 2
    Cream butter, sugar and orange zest, until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture, alternating with orange juice; blend well.
  • 3
    Scoop up dough into rounded 1-inch diameter portions and place 2-inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 minutes or until edges are lightly brown.
  • 4
    Remove from oven and add a chocolate chip to the top of each hot cookie. Allow a minute for the chocolate to soften then spread with the edge of a toothpick using parallel strokes (this gives the appearance of drizzled-on chocolate).
  • 5
    Transfer cookies to a wire rack to let cookies cool and chocolate solidify. Store in an airtight container.
  •  !
    Use only the thin orange peel, not the bitter white pith beneath.