Terry's Chocolate Orange Wedge Cookies

These Terry's Chocolate Orange Cookies are made with both dark and original Terry’s chocolate oranges, so they are double the chocolate. Shaped like a chocolate orange wedge they are fun, unique, and the ideal holiday cookies for the chocolate orange lover!

I created this chocolate orange cookie recipe and the first time I made them was as a Christmas cookie for my husband, around 2012. They were inspired by my husband's love of chocolate oranges. They are popular during the holiday season, make for a fun baking project, and are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges, but they are great any time of year. They are as well-loved by my family, as my other Christmas cookie staples: Raspberry Jam Cookies, 4 ingredient Whipped Shortbread Cookies, Christmas Biscotti, and Gingerbread Yule Log Cookies.

🥘Ingredient Notes

The chocolate oranges, orange extract, and orange zest give this cookie a really great orange flavor! For this chocolate orange cookie recipe, you'll also need:

• Unsalted butter. Butter in the dough results in lighter-textured cookies. I prefer to use unsalted butter so I can control the salt. In this case, I didn't need to add any salt to the cookies.
• Brown sugar. Brown sugar gives these cookies a chewiness and depth of flavor.
• Sour cream. Sour cream adds moisture and richness to these cookies.
• All-purpose flour. All-purpose flour keeps the dough strong enough to work with so it won't rip or tear.
• Orange zest. Gives this cookie a natural burst of orange flavor!
• Orange extract. Adds an even deeper orange flavor to this orange chocolate cookie.
• Terry’s dark chocolate orange and Terry’s milk chocolate orange. Both dark chocolate and milk chocolate oranges are chopped up and mixed right into the dough for the ultimate Terry's Chocolate Orange cookie experience!

🔪How to Make Terry's Chocolate Orange Cookies

These chocolate oranges are easy to make and you don't need any special tools. I simply use a basic butter knife to cut them and etch the little decorations on them.

Prep: Preheat oven to 370 degrees F ( (187 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

MAKE THE DOUGH (STEP1 ): Whack chocolate orange and unwrap, separating into segments. (Image 1) Finely chop both chocolate oranges into small pieces. Set aside. (Image 2). Add dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. Set aside. (Image 3) In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed. Beat wet ingredients together with an electric mixer until blended (about 30 seconds) then add wet ingredients (eggs, sour cream, orange and vanilla extracts, and orange zest) Image 4).

MAKE THE DOUGH (STEP 2): Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients with a wooden spoon until completely combined. *Stir in as much flour as you can with a spoon, but you may need to get in there with your hands to really mix it in. (Image 5). Fold in chocolate pieces (from both chocolate oranges) (Image 6).

SHAPE THE COOKIES (STEP 3): Roll cookie dough into a 1-inch round balls. Then flatten the cookie dough balls with the palm of your hand. (Image 7). *If you don't feel like making wedges, just continue on making the large, flat circles and then proceed to baking instructions below. Cut each cookie in half with a knife (Image 8). On the straight end of the cookie, use a knife to flatten and thin the edge, so that it is more like a wedge* You don't have to do this, but it makes the cookies look more like orange wedges. With the dull end of the knife, etch little lines/nicks/small cuts in the wedge cookies to look like the inside of an orange (use a Terry's chocolate orange segment as a guide) (Image 9).T hen use butter knife to make an outline around the half-circle outer edge of the cookies (Image 10).

BAKE THE COOKIES (STEP 4): Place cookies on a parchment-covered cookie sheet, spaced ½ - 1 inch apart (Image 11). Bake for 7 minutes in preheated oven.*If making whole cookies, bake for 8 minutes It will be hard to tell if the cookies are lightly browned, so they should look like this when turned over (Image 12). And when you split them in half, they will look baked, but with some melty chocolate (Image 13). Move cookies to a wire rack until completely cooled. (Image 14). These cookies are perfect served with a cup of coffee or milk!

Hint: This recipe makes A LOT of cookies, so if at any point you get tired of making the wedges, just switch to making the whole, round cookies. You can also freeze the dough (See storage)

🌡️How to Store These Chocolate Orange Cookies

Store these orange chocolate cookies at room temperature for up to 4 days.

The dough can also be stored in the fridge overnight; wrap dough in plastic wrap (if you want to make the dough a day in advance.)

Baked and cooled cookies can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 3 months.

👪 Serving Size

This recipe makes 80 chocolate orange cookies! However, if you don't cut them, it will make 40. You can also half, double, or triple the recipe by clicking on the serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.