Orange biscuits covered with chocolate. Chocolate and orange are a perfect match Christmas cookies makes no exception. So here’s an idea to prepare excellent orange shortbread biscuits, half covered with chocolate.
These cookies are suitable not only for Christmas, but in general for the cold season. But, since it’s Christmas time, in this case I made them using themed cookie cutters and decorating them with sugar sprinkles to make them more spectacular.
Orange biscuits covered with chocolate
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 150g sugar
- 100g butter
- 300g flour 00
- 1/2 sachet of baking powder
- 1 vanillin sachet
- juice of 1 orange
- zest of 2 oranges
- Dark chocolate to taste
- Sugar sprinkles to taste
Directions:
- First, pour the flour, sugar, vanilla, baking powder into a large bowl and mix with a fork.
- Then add the melted but cold butter, the eggs, the orange zest and juice. Start mixing with a fork and then continue to knead with your hands.
- The mixture will be soft and a little sticky. But, when it is well blended, form a ball and wrap with cling film. Refrigerate for 1 hour so that it hardens well, before going to make the biscuits.
- Then take the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin on a well floured surface. From time to time also flour the top surface of your dough, so that it does not stick to the rolling pin.
- When you have obtained a thickness of about 0.5cm, cut the cookies with the cookie cutters of your choice and then bake them in the oven at 180° C for about 15 minutes. The biscuits should be golden, but not too dark.
- Allow them to cool, possibly on a wire rack and in the meantime melt the dark chocolate in a bain-marie.
- Then dip half the biscuit in the chocolate and sprinkle with sprinkles of sugar. Then let them cool and harden well before tasting or packing your biscuits.