
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
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1Preheat oven to 350°F.
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2Cream 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.
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3Scoop 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.
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4Remove 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).
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5Transfer cookies to a wire rack to let cookies cool and chocolate solidify. Store in an airtight container.
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!Use only the thin orange peel, not the bitter white pith beneath.