📋 Terry’s Chocolate Orange Wedge Cookies recipe
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 the ideal holiday cookies for the chocolate orange lover!
Preheat oven to 370 degrees F (187 degrees C) Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
Whack chocolate orange and unwrap, separating into segments.Finely chop both chocolate oranges into small pieces.Set aside
Add dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed.
Add wet ingredients (eggs, sour cream, orange and vanilla extracts, and orange zest).
Beat wet ingredients together with an electric mixer until blended (about 30 seconds)
Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients with a wooden spoon until completely combined and it forms a stiff dough. *You may need to get in there with your hands to mix it
Fold in chocolate pieces (from both chocolate oranges)
Roll cookie dough into a 1-inch round balls.Then flatten the cookie dough balls with the palm of your hand.*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 round, flat cookie in half with a knife
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 the orange as a guide).
Then use a butter knife to make an outline around the half-circle outer edge of the cookies
Place cookies on a prepared baking sheet, spaced ½ - 1 inch apart
Bake cookies for 7 minutes in preheated oven.
And when you split them in half, they will look baked, but with some melty chocolate
Move cookies to a wire rack until completely cooled.
These cookies are perfect served with a cup of coffee or milk!
For whole cookies:
Bake cookies for an additional minute (8 minutes),
If you are doing this activity with small kids, use disposable plastic knives
For these double chocolate orange cookies, I love to use my silicone trivets, (affiliate link) in the photo below, because they are so much easier to clean than fabric or cork! They are also dishwasher safe, non-slip, heat resistant to 600ËšF, come in rectangular and circular and several colors, and are made with BPA-free stain-resistant silicone.
This recipe makes a lot of cookies (80), but you can easily freeze some of the dough in an airtight container or Ziploc freezer bag for up to 3 months. Just be sure to defrost it in the fridge, then bring it to room temperature before making cookies.
You can also freeze the dough in individual portions (1-inch cookie balls). For best results, freeze them, spaced ½ inch apart on cookie sheets, before moving them to a container or Ziploc bag (for up to 3 months). Again, you'll need to bring the dough to room temperature prior to flattening, decorating, and baking.
Variations & Substitutions:
Terry's Chocolate Orange -you could use all regular or all dark Terry's chocolate oranges if you prefer.
Sugar - you can substitute white sugar for brown sugar, but it will slightly alter the taste and texture.
Cookie shape - you can make them round instead of wedge-shaped, if you wish.
Storage: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.Â