📋 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 with 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.
They will look like this when done.
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),
Notes
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