Apart from baking bread, I am not a frequent baker. However, sometimes there are days when I feel restless and not quite myself. Those are the days when I think I need to sweeten them up a little bit, and baking seems to be a good way.
I found this recipe for orange chocolate chip shortbread on Pinterest and thought it a good fit for that particular day. I had oranges, but no mini chocolate chips, so I substituted them with regular ones. The dough, when rolled out, is so thick that it easily holds the bigger chips.
Here's what you need:
1½ sticks unsalted butter, softened
1¾ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup sugar
zest of 2 large oranges
⅛ tsp salt
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup semi-sweet (mini) chocolate chips
Start by combining flour and salt in a small bowl.
Place sugar on a rimmed plate and add the orange zest. Use the back of a spoon to mash zest and sugar together until the sugar is moist and fragrant. Put in a mixer bowl.
Add butter and vanilla, and mix on low for 1 minute.
Add the flour with the salt and mix until just combined.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Form dough into a flat disc and chill for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Roll dough out until it has a thickness of about ½ inch.
Use any shape cookie cutter and cut cookies from the dough, putting them on a baking sheet.
Chill for another 10 minutes in the freezer.
Bake for 25-28 minutes or until bottom of cookies are golden brown.
Cool completely and enjoy.
10 comments:
What a lovely variation on a theme. I make shortbread each year at Christmas for my partner. I have added cinnamon for years and hadn't considered orange zest. I will keep it in mind.
I hope that the sorty into baking restored your equanimity. Hugs.
They are looking so yummy... I would love to have them..
Am not that much of a baker either, but your cookies look scrumptious! Am not German, am Dutch, but I did live in Berlin for a year, where my oldest was born. Love your blog, and we do have knitting in common:) When I browsed here, I saw the landscape you were biking at - it looks very much like where I live - which is half an hour East of Jackson:) Who knows we'll get to meet each other sometime - but my German is very rusty:):)
If you like me back, my current blog is at artworkdsfromjeshstg(dot)wordpress(dot)com (because wordpress always gives my previous blog. Have a great weekend!)
These look fabulous! I have given up gluten right now, but I will hang on to the recipe.
These look just wonderful, I will give them a try. I like recipes that don't call for so many ingredients :)
These sound very good and I like the flavor combination. Something I hadn't thought of!
The limitations of my kitchen prevent my making these, but wow, they look and sound delicious!
Looks so good!! Thank you!!!
I love shortbread and when my surgery is done, that may show up in my kitchen! (No butter for now... boo.) It's so pretty -- they look just lovely and I love the ingredient combination!
Looking so nice! I can almost smell that beautiful zest. The addition of chocolate chips is perfect :D)
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